August 9, 2003

From: Scott Beld
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: Ponton Site - August 9, 2003

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

I’m sending out a quick update to let you see the feature we exposed this weekend. Once again I didn’t leave the site till 8 P.M. so I didn’t have time to photograph artifacts – I’ll try to do that this afternoon/evening.

On Saturday, Dave, Greg, Lia and I excavated at the site (see excavation.jpg). We excavated the four units shown in red on the map to finish exposing the feature that we found on August 2 (pontonmap 8-9-03.pdf). The feature turned out to be rectangular, about 1 meter (NS) by about 2.5 meters (EW) – see feature.jpg. I took a couple cores from the center of the feature and it appears to be about 30 cm deep below the base of the plow zone (or about 50 cm below the surface). It’s still unclear what this feature is.

Tonight we’ll do lab work – I’ll be leaving shortly for CNC.

Saturday, we’ll plan on excavating at the site. Probably in the block to the north to expose more of the feature that is turning up there.

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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