Week Three of Five: the Doldrums
Happy Heroes Day (a Bermudian holiday) from windy humid Paget Island. Hard to believe but we only have seven more digging days left in the field school - and so much still to do. We are still chasing the Big Building at Smallpox Bay and will have to postpone the hunt until next year. We have added four more post holes to the north wall line and three to the south wall line and have not found the end yet. The structure is now at least 36 feet long and several of the new post holes on the south line are "doubles" (a large posthole with a smaller one immediately next to it). This suggests either the building stood for a considerable time and that repair post holes were added adjoining the original ones or that they went in as pairs from the start. We have also found extensive evidence that the post holes we see are in fact casts, or rather post molds: the walls of the post holes are actually limestone cement poured into the post holes and taking the shape of t...
