Day 6 at Mota Piece

This post was supposed to go up yesterday, but the internet cut out last night. These photos are from yesterday at Mota Piece.

Drawing trench plans on the context record forms 

7A

John holding his planning frame (used for doing scale
drawings of trenches)

Measuring tape set up as a reference point for me when calling out
coordinates of possible features to Sue, who was drawing the trench (7A)

Above photo: this is Jonathan, a prof/archaeologist from Halifax who has come to help out with the field school the last two years. This year he's only here for our 4 days at Mota Piece this week. It's an ongoing joke that we can never find anywhere stable in the trench to put the plastic chair, which Sue has to stand on to take photographs. Here Jonathan was joking around testing its stability; when Dr. Scott saw the picture later, he said that when he visits Jonathan's university for recruitment this fall he'll be using this photo as an example of what NOT to do onsite!

6

6 (foreground: official photography paraphernalia that I was holding)

Excavating 9 pieces of the same pot in 7B

Finds from 6D

55 pieces of pottery, mostly from the same pot, found in Trench 7B. I found
and excavated about 25 of them.

Bone in 6D

My jury-rig with flagging tape of one of our gazebo corners
after high winds were lifting it off its posts

Above photo: my notes on Nina's desk yesterday evening. There was still last-minute work to be done for the Cornwall trip that I hadn't been able to do earlier, due to having to wait for info from Nina/confirmations/emails about various things. She works 9-5 and those are the hours that I'm at Mota Piece every day until we go, so we're playing post-it note tag: I go into her office in the evenings to work and then leave notes with questions, answers to her notes, and lists of things I still need for the trip (entry fee money, hotel confirmations, etc etc).