Yesterday it rained 1.5 inches in Kodiak - a mere .06 inches off of the record for the day - and this morning it was still raining pretty hard. Needless to say, but the Community Archaeology crew spent the day in the museum lab cleaning and organizing the artifacts we found during the first week of the dig. Nobody loves lab work - unless the alternative is quasi mud wrestling in a mud slimed pit as a hard rain beats down - but it is an essential part of the whole process. Today we got to catch up on the lab work.
Still everybody enjoyed seeing what we have already found all cleaned up and pretty. We even 'found ' a few new artifacts that had gone unrecognized when they were first excavated. The best of these was a Dover chert gunflint for a flintlock rifle. If the excavator had realized what they had they would have won artifact of the day for that one. Late in the day we even went back across the street and baled the units. Some of them had almost 2 feet of water in the bottom. Hopefully, they will dry out and be good to go tomorrow. Patrick
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