This blog records the survey and excavation of the old orchard found on the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of the Queen of the Holy Rosary grounds. This work is being undertaken by the students of CSU East Bay's Field Course in Archaeology class of Spring 2011. Check out our blog and see what we're up to!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Christy, you said you wanted a picture of the unsuccessful augering activity - here it is. We started off near the site datum with a 60cm depth target. We were looking for evidence of a building that had been noted on earlier maps. I took the first shift, and powered down 20 cm. It was very hard work - the dried earth was like concrete. After much sweat (and encouragement from the sidelines) I got down 20 cm. Subsequent attempts to get the auger pit deeper included sitting Christy on the auger handle while Tung and I turned it. When that didn't work we thought it might be because Christy was just too light; so we tried again with Tung sitting on the auger handle while Christy, Vanessa and I tried to turn it. No success. Auger pit abandoned. No artifacts were found in the first 20 cm.
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