Day 19.

Ah Thursdays, how many secrets do you hold for me?

So, start the day in EB 44. Good features, they said. Easy digging, they said. Well... it was. The feature was somewhat faint, but it was mostly there. And the soil was really sandy. There were some kind of clay-y spots that felt thicker, but overall the soil was really thin. But wait. There's more.

As I'm finishing clearing out the second half and filling out my paperwork MCT comes by and starts scraping around in my corner. (Oh, EMS was digging by me again, and where I got exactly 3 pieces of chert from a full pit she got a hand size rim sherd from a post hole. jealous) He scrapes up to my hole and stops to start poking about more closely. He happens upon a really long wall trench that ends right at my hole.

It turns out the feature I dug was sitting on top of not 1, but 2 wall trenches that intersected... pretty much in the middle of my hole. At one point JDK, another supervisor on the site, pointed out what he thought was a historic, square post. But, if the 2 walls intersect at this point, I question whether or not that might have been a pre-historic post, we'll never know now. I was instructed to avoid the historic section in my flot sample. And, looking at my profile map you can kind of see where one intersects w/ the other. It couldn't be helped, though. When all you have to go off of is this hole that some jackass digs for you and an entire block dug by a big mechanical track hoe there's not much you can do.

So, we spent the better part of the afternoon finishing what we'd been working on initially, fastening down tarps w/ tarp weights (plastic bags filled w/ dirt) and hearing about how we'd be sent back to the lab so that more experienced folks could rescrape the entire surface.

It was a beautiful day out, took on a couple more shades, and got to fill out proper paperwork; I can't complain.