Last Week Rally Time
During a field season, time is elastic. Some days feel like they stretch on for weeks. Others pass in a blink of an eye. At lunch yesterday I suddenly realized we only had four(ish) work days left - and an awful lot to accomplish in this time. Our huge "to do" list has a lot to do with the incredibly prolific work of the team's excavation pace. At Smallpox Bay we have cleared more than sixty meter-square units following out lines of post holes to fully map multiple early structures and are up to Context # 2017 (we started at 800). We now are mapping the exposed features (more than 70) in situ and then excavating them. Additionally we've exposed a large swath of previously excavated units in order to map and 3D model the entire site next week with drone footage. In the past week we also reopened Oven Site Cistern (hibernating since 2017) and began new excavations at Oven Site North in the hopes of revealing the "Captain's House," the mansion allotted
