Mota Piece dig, continued

We had another two days of digging at Mota Piece this Friday-Saturday. On Friday, it rained much of the day, so I didn't take as many shots. The rain also turned the dirt into thick mud, which was much heavier to lift in bucketfuls out of the trenches, and made us all much messier! Saturday was gorgeous weather, and we went out for just three hours with 2 of the students. 

Horse jaw found by one of the students

Part of Trench 8 hit the water table

Trench 8

Trench 6

"My" trench, Trench 7. I've worked in both 7A (top left) and 7B (bottom right).

Trench 7A. I was digging here on Saturday, working back from
the profile taking one trowel-depth of dirt off the whole surface,
then starting again at the profile to work backwards doing the same
thing again.  We found a few pottery pieces, but mostly tons
of CBM (clay building material, aka daub) and charcoal.

Sitting on the trench edge bagging finds on Saturday :)

7B. See the dark part of the profile at the bottom, with fairly neat lines?
Dr. Scott says it's probably a beam slot. In the next photo you
can see three pronounced beam slots running along the bottom of the profile.
Great evidence that a building used to be here!

7A.

Hard to see in the photo, but we came across in 7A what is probably the remains
of a tumbled wall that fell during a fire, covering a good portion of the trench surface.