Today it rained so we did not go out into the field but we did go to the Ohio Historical Society, to the archives building, to look over Baby's field notes. Linda Pansing was so helpful for putting out all of the materials and also identifying what I thought were ceramic sherds but what were in fact just rocks. Kind of sad that I have yet to find ceramics but I am pushing onward.
We mainly wanted to look at the maps which Baby created of the site and see where he dug his trenches. The only thing is that he didn't mark all of the trenches he dug on the map. He talks about 4 trenches, one of which was 80 feet long! All of his trenches were about 5 feet wide and ranged in length, and he talks about expanding them in his notes so the overall length is up in the air. It would have been awesome if we could have seen where he excavated so we ourselves did not end up digging in the same place but we will have to figure it out another way. We made copies of the map anyway so that we can use it to mark where we excavate. I work this weekend so we will not be going out to the site but hopefully next week we can finish test unit 1 and uncover some great artifacts.
Here are links to 2 of the Ohio Historical Society's blogs if anyone is interested:
http://ohiohistory.wordpress.com//
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/
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