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| Washing Day |
As seems to always be the case, I called an artifact washing day today because of a rainy weather forecast. As you can see from the photo down below, that's not what we ran into for most of the day. I've convinced myself, though, that the site really needed to dry out.
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| Hard Rubber Button |
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| Bottle Neck |
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| Stone Floor of Feature where Bottle Uncovered |
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| Beautiful, Sunny Blue Skies |
Regardless, in addition to washing our assemblage to date, the students also spent much of the morning engaged in some very preliminary, rapid-fire research on two artifacts that possess diagnostic characteristics. At the moment, both are pointing toward a mid to late 19th Century occupation for the site. One hard rubber button with a readable (though very tiny) "Goodyear" and "N.R. Co." and one bottle neck both sit in that time frame. We've also recovered somewhere around 50 small, whiteware sherds, but so far, they don't seem to indicate much temporal information other than post-dating 1820.
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