A very serious pit before excavation
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photo on right. The huge celt came out of this pit. |
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Pit from which celt was excavated from.
After the plow zone is removed , we scrape the surface flat. Then sometimes to add definition to the dark soil we spray it with water. After the stains are difined, they are disected in half. 1/2 of the stain is removed, giving a side profile of it. Stains can be pits for fires or storage or even post holes for shelters.
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Raliegh Knap in the pit where the celt was found. The pit was closer to the bluff . We had thought we were to sterile soil. A probe had suggested something was deeper. It turned out our probe had hit the celt. The extra depth was due to the closeness to the bluff. Yes , raliegh gets credit for the celt
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This photo is after the plow zone has been removed. The ground has been troweled smooth and a faint darkness defines the pit. A string has been drawn to define the area to be removed. the first step is to remove only half of the pit. A site has usually been lived on for hundreds of years and the pits and post holes actually overlay and over lap. By the time this pit had been dug , several pits had been defined in it. Complicated. |
