Daub! And Public Tours Sunday!
It's been a busy couple of weeks since we last posted as we do battle with the weather, try to finish up all the units we have targeted for excavation, give a couple public talks, see a few sites, and pace ourselves to finish strong as the temps rise. The biggest update is that we have now fully excavated the very large (and we know now quite deep!) pit feature that we uncovered at the end of the 2022 season. What we initially thought was a mid-18th century midden has turned out to be a circa 1690s robber pit for making mortar, which was then filled with the remains of a likely much earlier wattle-and-daub post building that had survived for a considerably long time. Whale rib section in the sidewall While digging through the pit fill layers, we encountered two thick layers of daub fragments - hundreds of them - that were smooth on one side but bore the imprints of leaves, sticks, lathe, and timber on the other side and took a variety of forms. It is, to my knowledge, the fi
