My first day at the dig was Thursday the 10th. I showed up a little bit later than everybody else (I'd had a meeting with a professor at 8:30am, go me!) and spent my first few minutes wandering to see what the heck was going on. They had opened up four trenches with a small Bobcat, removing fill-dirt that had been placed on top of the original Britt house foundation in 1974, a kitchen midden (garbage dump) that we had worked on last time in September, uncovered the top of the supposed location of the Ivy House, very carefully scraped dirt from the location of the original cabin (Ryan's 'Zen' project), and a small quick project that was myself and Steve's little side job (the two of us are the only students working on the Britt material in the lab, and this was the first project where we weren't working with a staff member, big juju here).
Over the course of five days, I took a LOT of photos, most on Saturday when the public day occurred, had some fun staged ones, and some great candids.
Thursday: first day on site!!
Steve, Chelsea, and Katie in the cellar trench (this isn't staged at all...cough...)
Other three trenches, Lana screening.
He bit the bullet for me...I did NOT want to do the interview.
Chelsea...I have to say, she's the coolest boss I've ever had!!
Friday: preparing and cleaning up for the public day.
Sorry about rotation...a lot of glass bottles and eventually a table in this one.
Ryan found this in his Zen unit!
Lunch!! Chelsea wanted to put out "Don't feed the archaeologists!" signs.
Saturday: the Public Day, sooo many people!!
The water tower unit...secret mission/special project, yay!
Ivy House location
Fantastic image of the man himself...painter and photographer.
Me and Erinn :) she brought me coffee!
A slow moment at the table...there was constantly six to a dozen people there.
The kitchen midden...we were kicked out of the water tower unit while people were there, so he got bumped to this one while I was working at the table.
Sunday: I hadn't been planning on showing up since I had to work at 11am, but when your alarm is set for 7:30, and you wake up at 6:00, it has to be a sign...got in two hours :)
The foundation in our water tower project.
Looking down over the Britt house foundation location.
The 'Zen' project...Ryan had to be very patient and excavate the brown post hole spots...the 'Zen' is an inside joke...Ryan is very thorough and effecient, but goes 'Zen' on us.
Monday: Valentine's Day!! Chelsea made us some AMAZING cupcakes with homemake raspberry buttercream frosting made with raspberries from her garden...oh my gosh they were delicious...
We found something!! We think...what do we do with it?? Hence asking the boss, who is leaning in for a better look...
They were close, and not afraid, and loved my strawberries...
I love Katie's sweatshirt, she practically glows!
You can barely see the top of Matt's head in the farthest unit...
It was a really deep unit haha!
Okay!! So these were some of my favorite pics, there are a few more great ones on the SOU camera that I'll add later, including some more of me.
Needless to say, this weekend was awesome, and I can't wait to clean the artifacts that we found...many of them were too dirty to really see while in the field, but I know that there are some pretty sweet finds :) hopefully the weather will calm down and we can return to the Britt Gardens soooooon!!!
I forgot to add the link for the news clip from Thursday the 10th...
ReplyDeletehttp://kdrv.com/news/local/203996
Enjoy!!