The report for today is a day late because when your field reporter got home last evening -- he was just too dang tired to put something together and instead went to bed!
Our prep work continued today -- with many excavation units opened to deeper levels, several other excavation units laid out, sod stripped, and excavations begun.
Our tremendously hard-working crew moved an enormous amount of dirt -- but most of it was plowzone moving down to the levels where we can see features.
Doug Drake -- one of our long time local partners -- dropped by in the morning with a couple of nice iced-down watermelons to share with the students.
We were also assisted in our digs today by several experienced volunteers -- Ellis Durham, Chris Hogan (an alum of our program who was my field assistant for the MTSU 2003 and 2004 field schools), Lacey Fleming and Brandy Dacus (recent alums and participants in past field schools at Castalian Springs).
Our friend Lee Myers from Wynnewood also visited today.
About 1:00 pm, the rain moved in and we were forced do a rapid "shut-down" of our excavations and retire to our field house up the road. After an hour or so, the front passed through and we were able to complete another couple of hours of work before closing up for the day.
Although much important work was done today -- nothing spectacular to report. More pictures and news are available for Saturday...