Days 28, 29, 30.

Lost a few days. Getting a little lazy. Anywho.

Day 28. 29Apr09

Into the field. Got back to digging the internal pit. Turned out to be another big post(like this one), only this one was deeper. Standing in the bottom it came up to my sternum. Mostly, just lots of digging. Figured the back end would have to get cleared out for a profile picture, but left it because I was skeptical as to whether the structure floor had been sorted out yet. It hadn't, so we scraped it and then I cleared out half again as much as I'd already removed from the ground.

Got warmer today, I wasn't expecting that. Sported a black t-shirt to try and help insulate myself w/ the little sun we were supposed to get (and wearing the dickie hoodie is too damn hot), but it got sunnier and warmer than expected so I mostly sweat my ass off. Either way, got down to the bottom, had some weird disturbances on the east side of the cut. By the end of the day it was kind of thought this would be a ramp for the post, perhaps. JDK photoed and scribed the wall and I got a hand from KLW in mapping. It really was a pain in the ass. There were just so many zones, and that eastern side was still in question. Got down to the wire as she sketched and I spit numbers but it got done. Tarped off and ready for rain.


Day 29. 30Apr09

Lab day. Washed. Mostly 397. Mostly really really big rocks. Some nice pieces of chert. Tried to listen to Morrissey, kind of made me sleepy beyond that didn't listen to much as there were talkative folks about and I didn't want to be rude.

Kicker of the day was that it was supposed to rain. It did the night before, but got kind of sunny around lunch today. Sigh.


Day 30. 1May09

Back in the field. Damp all morning, spotty rain. Took an early lunch in a harder drizzle. Got back to the profile we'd so hastily mapped 2 days ago. It was still intact, which was nice. JDK munselled it, there were so many zones that the munsell notes got their own page. So, I'm to the point where I can cut the second half... only it's cut short by the structure's wall trench. Oh, and there was a bunch of back dirt tossed past the structure that needs to go so we can see how far this post/ramp (yeah, the afore mentioned disturbance on the east side of the profile wall turned out to be a bunch of nothing) is past the trench.

Move that, put in new red nails for elevation and digital mapping, an impromptu window cut into the disturbance to verify it's actually nothing, a proper win.cut to document the fact that WT.D is superimposed on the post (we can see it in plan and standing there looking at it, but they want hard evidence, like a profile, showing this). Start the win.cut but find out I need to stop ~3cm down from surface so WT.D can get scraped down and floted. More orders issued, I get to profile WT.C and D while cutting 137. Multi-tasking, I can do that. About 2 rolls around and we get the call to wrap it up. Rather than just going home BJS and I go back into the lab, box flot stuff and that's a week.