AUGUST 14, 2004

From: Beld, Scott
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: Ponton Site - August 14, 2004

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

We made it out to the Ponton site on Saturday. Dave, Kevin and I were there (see Photo 1 in the photo gallery below). We didn’t find a whole lot.

We finished 517R494 and continued to excavate 515R498 (see the Map in the photo gallery). There were a few pieces of rather thick flat glass in 515R498 that makes me think that much of the fill is late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Most of the fill so far has been a relatively sterile brown-orange-yellow mottled sand and gravel. However, there may still be a trash layer in the feature though – at the end of the day there was a dark brown (organic) layer appearing in 515R498 and some dark gray/black rodent burrows.

Tomorrow (Wednesday), we’ll do lab work at the Resource Building. Saturday, we’ll excavate at Ponton. If anyone is interested we can start to excavate some plow zone units to the north of Feature 5!

Hope to see you at the site.

Scott

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Scott G. Beld, Ph.D.
Research Associate II
The University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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