The next few days were extremely hot and humid. Another yurt came up, borrowed from the Fortress of Louisbourg, and even in the short time it took to set that up in 33 degrees of humid weather, we felt like we’d been steamed. But the final product was lovely, and our tent city grew by another bound.
The tent on the right houses our current excavation unit. The one on the left is housing the lab, at present, but will be situated over the other excavation unit under the silver tarp (centre), and the smaller yurt (behind the larger one) is going to house our soil sifters on rainy days, so we can screen our soil for artefacts in any weather.
We cleaned up the unit from 2008 a little bit. The unit had been covered but not backfilled, so the walls had slumped a little bit, and a fresh soil scrape gives us a clear idea of what the feature is and what we’re looking at.
Becki cleans up the old unit, which had slumped a bit from being covered but not backfilled.
Rob and I turned our attention to the new unit, and once we had the corner stakes in, we set about cutting off the sod.
The excavation in broad view, as Rob and I cut the sod under the tent.
The sod off, the excavation unit was prepped for photography with a bit of trowelling.
Our new excavation unit, and we're all extremely excited to see what's causing the high magnetic anomaly in this area.
So it’s prepared. What do you think we found in this area? What’s causing the high readings? We’ll find out shortly!
Miriam L. C. Fry
Jonathan Fowler
Sarah-Marie McDonald
Stéphane Noël
