tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6675851762695974072024-03-14T01:59:46.900-07:00Pensacola Colonial Frontiers, 2009-2015Official blog for the University of West Florida archaeological field school at Mission San Joseph de Escambe (1741-1761), inhabited by Apalachee Indians and Spanish friars and soldiers.Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-37070416971036016692015-07-26T12:28:00.001-07:002015-07-26T12:28:27.419-07:00It's a wrap: Finishing up the 2015 season at Molino<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Official group photo for 2015, taken overlooking Spring Lake.</td></tr>
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Friday marked the last official day of the 2015 Colonial Frontiers summer field school, and all but one of the excavation units at Molino have been completed and backfilled. This year's fieldwork at Molino was unquestionably successful, and provided important new clues to both the mid-18th-century Mission San Joseph de Escambe and the late 19th-century Molino Mills sawmill, although many questions of course remain.<br />
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Excavations in Mission Escambe on the site's upper terrace provided new clues as to the probable corner of a mission-era rectangular structure that may be the mission church, as pictured in the photos below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View to SE of sand lens in E-W trench, with lens on S profile where the trench cornered.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelsey and Emma working on bisection of trench feature.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floor-cleaning from three angles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of S profile with substantial post below sand lens.</td></tr>
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Other excavation units to the north were designed to catch wall posts or interior features of a predicted circular Apalachee residential structure, and although a total of three units were opened here this summer (two 1x2m and one 1.5x2m in size), only a few posts were found, only some of which were deep enough to have been probable wall posts or roof supports. Initial inferences regarding a large circular structure some 10 meters in diameter were not supported, and although more units will be needed next year to confirm a pattern, the possible residential structure here presently seems to be most probably in the neighborhood of 6-6.5 meters in diameter. A good amount of residential debris was found in these units, however, as well as a probable smudge pit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian and Melissa pause while helping start a larger unit adjacent to the unit Olivia is sitting in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla takes an overhead plan view shot while Jillian steadies the ladder.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla shows off fragments of Spanish majolica she has just found in her unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyler takes a photo of a feature profile with Jillian holding a metric rule.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final plan view photo showing the base of two finished units, mostly demonstrating where posts (hence walls) are NOT located.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelsey makes notes on the profile of one of the units in the area of the possible southern wall of the round house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pretty fragment of hand-painted blue majolica from the house area.</td></tr>
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Below the upper terrace, the two excavation units in the floor of Molino Mills were slowed by an over-abundance of architectural features and building debris, but provided considerable information about the Reconstruction-era sawmill. Our uppermost unit located on the bluff slope exposed the southern edge of a brick floor feature first identified in a shovel test last year, and revealed that the floor had been laid in on a level platform carved into the bluff itself, and was bordered along the bluff edge by a drainage trench somewhat lower than the elevation of the bricks, with water-lain sand and a central gully subsequently covered by burned wood and nail debris when the mill burned in 1884.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline celebrates the completion of one stage of the trench feature excavation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline, Kristin, and Darby revel in the completion of unit backfilling.</td></tr>
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The most distant excavation unit, located in the humid, mosquito-infested lower terrace area adjacent to the active swamp-bottom, proved to have been situated on the northern edge of some sort of excavation associated with the emplacement of what appears to have been sawmill machinery, and included considerable brick and mortar debris in the southern half, underlain by clay fill, burned debris, and underlying sand deposits, bordered on the north once again by some sort of drainage trench lined by boards that appear to have charred in the ground when the mill burned. A large iron bolt had been set deep within a trench next to the excavated area under the machinery it was probably attached to.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen, Darby, and Melissa pause during the excavation of the middle layers of the unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen and Olivia carefully excavate around the bricks and trench/board features near the bottom of the unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelsey, Jodi, and Olivia work on mapping the board-lined trench while Chelsea works on unit paperwork.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyler and Kelsey display the striking results of a day of intense waterscreening through muddy clay.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An unrusted bent cut nail recovered among the debris in this unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire crew rallies around the last of the waterscreening during the last hour of the last day as rains begin to fall.</td></tr>
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In the end, the summer field school of 2015 turned out to be a fun and successful sixth season at the Mission Escambe site, including new work on both the Molino Mills sawmill there, as well as testing at a nearby Second Spanish mill, providing important new information on all sites and time periods represented. We are especially grateful to Richard Marlow and his family for continued support and help to the project, and we thank Josh Pope, William Cox, Neal Collier, and particularly Dr. Elizabeth Benchley and the UWF Archaeology Institute, including Karen Mims, Norine Carroll, Jen Melcher, and Jan Lloyd and her lab staff, as well as our many volunteers at the site this summer, of course including our wonderful student crew. We look forward to continuing laboratory analysis of all our finds this summer during the fall and winter, and we hope to be back once again next year with more discoveries for 2016.<br />
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Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-1881733323516138242015-07-23T04:20:00.001-07:002015-07-23T04:24:15.772-07:00A change of pace: fieldwork at a Second Spanish Period sawmill communityFor the past week and a half, the Colonial Frontiers field school crew has been conducting a shovel test survey at a completely different archaeological site, a water-powered sawmill dating primarily to the Second Spanish Period (1781-1821) located along a creek feeding into the Escambia River from the west. The site has received limited archaeological surface survey in the past, but is now the focus of master's thesis research by one of this year's field directors, Jillian Okray, and so our students have just wrapped up 8 days of shovel testing at the site. Here, along the broad, gently sloping ridge bordering the remnants of the mill dam, we have found clear evidence for the small mill community founded here during the late 18th century, including several concentrations of what appears to be residential debris dating to the time period of the mill. Apart from a total of 74 shovel tests completed across the site in an attempt to define and bound the occupation, one narrow test trench was excavated in an area that appears to have a collapsed brick structure, either a wall or pier or chimney base. Despite intense heat and humidity over the past few days in the field, students learned the basics of shovel test survey and simultaneously provided us a great new window into the Second Spanish community located at the site. We hope to return to the site in the fall in order to explore a few questions left unanswered during our short stay at the site this summer, but for the moment, a series of photos below will show some of our activities and finds at the site.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia and Tyler work on a shovel test next to one of the site datums.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteer Nikki Mauro shaps a picture of a shovel test with some help; also pictured are Melissa, Tyler, Kayla, and Jillian.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen uses a coring device to explore stratigraphy while Kelsey looks on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia and Caroline excavate in the trench while Jillian and Melissa sift.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darby and Tyler work on a test next to the lakebed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelsey and Tyler hold a massive root they conquered while digging a shovel test.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteers Kristin Parrish and Chelsea Randall help Jodi and Kayla excavating and sifting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the brick wall and associated scatter when originally identified.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Careful excavation around the bricks in the trench.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteer Michelle Pigott helps Olivia and Jodi excavate the brick wall feature.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the brick wall and collapsed scatter after excavation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A charred board found within a pit feature containing poorly-fired handmade brick rubble.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to the natural gap in the ironstone peninsula where the mill raceway may have been located.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian, Kayla, and Emma exploring the raceway trough.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla, Emma, Jillian, and Dr. Worth in the raceway, as viewed from the bridge above.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of what appear to be chisel marks along the base of the stone raceway, apparently where Spanish mill owners straightened a portion of the natural stone trough.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian examines a vertical notch carved into the stone wall at the base of the raceway, presumably made to emplace a wooden structural element.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A blown glass stopper for a cruet or similar container.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side and end views of two of the glass beads found on the site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front and back views of a brass button with attached wire loop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The neck of a handmade bottle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another handmade bottle neck with applied strip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some ceramics from the site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Surface finds near the mill raceway, including an iron "log dog."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brushed pottery, probably associated with Creek Indians either during or just prior to the mill occupation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A transfer print sherd.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A large, bent wrought iron nail.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A large sherd of a shell-edge plate.</td></tr>
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Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-85240431164849974402015-06-24T08:20:00.000-07:002015-06-24T15:52:55.859-07:00Sawmill floors and mission posts: midpoint update at Molino.We are now in week six of the Pensacola Colonial Frontiers 2015 field school, and still making good progress on both the mission and sawmill portions of the dig. We have two excavation units still in progress on the lower terrace and bluff slope, and have finished up one very deep and complex "shovel test" (which is actually a mini-excavation unit, dug in levels at Molino instead of the standard top-to-bottom shovel test of the same size, 50x50 cm). The first is located along the slope below the summit of the bluff but above the sawmill floor on the lower terrace, and was originally laid in to discover the southern boundary of a brick floor discovered last year. During excavation, students found that the clay comprising the bluff seems to have been truncated and leveled in this area so that the brick floor could be laid adjacent to the cut, and after digging through quite a bit of overlying sediment and debris, yesterday the top of the bricks were finally reached. Further excavation should allow us to determine more about how this structural feature was constructed, and what the function of this brick floor may have been for the sawmill, especially given the location of what we believe to have been the brick chimney and steam boiler just a few meters to the north. The brick floor has soot and ash deposits, and charred wood and nails along the edge, all probably associated with the 1884 fire that destroyed Molino Mills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa and Kelsey working on the bluff-slope unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molded glass from the same unit, with "Montgomery, Alabama" among the markings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taylor cleans dirt off the newly-exposed brick floor in this unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of several nails discovered along the margins of the brick floor.</td></tr>
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Farther east out on the lower terrace (an area of the site most prone to mosquitoes since it is technically within the floodplain adjacent to the modern swamp bottom), another unit has been excavated through alluvial sand to what appears to be a clay floor, with more evidence of the 1884 fire, as well as a considerable jumble of large mortared bricks that may have been part of one or more collapsed brick piers in this area. Whether these piers supported mill structures or machinery within such structures has yet to be determined, but this unit is providing great new information about the sawmill.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia, Taylor, Melissa, and Emma hold sheets for shade in Jen's swamp-bottom unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Large pier fragments made of mortared brick amidst alluvial sands.</td></tr>
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A nearby shovel test just completed and backfilled last week along the base of the upper terrace bluff has provided other clues. Deep below more recent colluvial and alluvial sediments was found a deposit of broken brick rubble and other debris adjacent to what appears to have been a thick clay pad that may have served as a floor, and which bears a blackened layer on its uppermost surface. This clay was apparently laid on top of a white sand base, and below both the bricks and the clay-sand feature was the original sand and clay comprising the lower terrace. Since we got such a small window into these features, interpreting their function will be difficult, but we currently suspect the brick-filled deposit may have been a trench dug between the base of the bluff (where runoff would have flowed during rainstorms) and the prepared clay floor of the sawmill, perhaps in an effort to control drainage around the mill. A similar brick-filled trench was discovered during the 2010 and 2011 field seasons on the upper bluff, as can be seen in the blog updates <a href="http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/2011/05/great-weather-steady-progress.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/2011/06/ongoing-discoveries.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The surface of the brick-filled deposit and adjacent clay feature (view to north).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Profile view (to east) showing excavated clay feature and remaining bricks in unit walls.</td></tr>
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On the bluff summit, two ongoing excavation units continue to provide clues as to the possible Apalachee structure surrounding one of two clay hearth features discovered during our 2012 and 2014 field seasons. The southernmost unit has been slowed considerably by the careful excavation of the intersecting trench features and clay cap we now believe to have been associated with a log skid road potentially constructed for the Cooper mill during the early 19th century, but in undisturbed deposits below these features several postholes have appeared, at least one of which is substantial and deep enough to have been some sort of wall or roof support post for an Apalachee roundhouse.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sabrina, Emma, and Darby work on excavating sediments in their unit in the possible Apalachee structure.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sabrina and Emma show off a completed map of the fully-excavated trench features at the base of their unit.</td></tr>
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The other unit to the northeast came down on at least two postholes, one of which is similarly deep and substantial, and which may also be part of the structure we are looking for. This unit is presently being profiled (scale drawings of stratigraphic layers and other features in all four walls) before backfilling.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia, Brenna (Darby's sister), Jillian, and Darby work on mapping Olivia's unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia takes measurements for a profile map of her neatly-excavated unit.</td></tr>
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We have also been employing some additional technology in our fieldwork this summer, including the new, the old, and the super-old. The "new" technology was a ground penetrating radar (GPR) operated by Archaeology Institute archaeologist Jennifer Melcher last week with the assistance of our students. This instrument provided a readout of subsurface disturbances under the grassy field where previous shovel testing suggests there may have been a sawmill-era residence or other structure on the bluff summit away from the main mission and mill complex, and results will be ground-truthed soon with additional shovel tests in the areas where possible anomalies appeared.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa, Jennifer Melcher, and Darby take readings with the GPR.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The "old" technology is a standard optical transit, which has been serving as a reliable backup for our laser-enabled total station unit that occasionally has "issues" (or which may need to be set up in a different area of the site). Dr. Worth trained several students in the use of the transit (which he was originally trained to use during 1980s-era archaeology), and it continues to serve well for checking elevations during fieldwork.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian and Darby work on leveling the optical transit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia and Jillian take elevations using the transit and metric stadia rod.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The "very old" technology tried over the past week was a "smudge pit" created in a metal can in order to generate sufficient smoke to keep the mosquitoes and yellow flies at bay. While labor-intensive, this technique has proved effective, though building a hot fire in the middle of the summertime conditions on site sometimes seems to counteract the benefits gained by the smoke. Based on several days of experimentation by Dr. Worth, the operation of a smudge pit seems to depend on generating a hot enough fire using oak or other woods that build up a solid base of coals, and then periodically adding green or moist wood on top of the coals to generate the most smoke. When the fire is burning hot, the smoke largely disappears, but when the smoke is best, there is a risk that the fire and coals will die out (plus the smoke is actually so copious that it can be hard to breathe). The key seems to be in balancing the two forces (coal-generating hot fire and smoke-generating smoldering coals), and this may indeed explain why most in-ground smudge pits found archaeologically here at Mission Escambe seem to have been fed with corn cobs, which could easily soak up water and then smolder for a while on a bed of live coals inside a structure. The fire was probably generated in the main hearth, and the smudge pit was used sparingly to generate just enough smoke to expel the bugs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the bug-scattering smoke wafting across the dig site.</td></tr>
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During one of our rain days, the students from both the Colonial Frontiers and Arcadia UWF field schools traveled to <a href="http://www.firstcityart.org/" target="_blank">First City Art Center</a> in downtown Pensacola, where they were able to take part in a special demonstration and workshop on glassblowing arranged for the UWF group. Students were even able to make their own colored glass globe ornaments for a modest price, learning some of the basics of the ancient art of glassblowing. This was a great way for students and staff alike to get the experience of seeing and participating in the creation of glass objects not dissimilar from the hand blown glass bottles that we find fragments of routinely at Molino. We are very grateful to the folks at <a href="http://www.firstcityart.org/" target="_blank">First City Art Center</a> for hosting the UWF group.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 2015 Colonial Frontiers crew at First City Art Center.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia heats the glass in the furnace while rotating it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa blows air into the glass bubble to create a globe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian carefully shapes the glass using a wooden block soaked in water.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Finally, on a happy side note, one of our current student supervisors, Kayla Rowe, got married this past weekend, and a number of members of our past and present Molino archaeology crews attended the Hawaiian-themed wedding (group picture below). We wish Kayla and her husband all the best in her future happiness!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Molino attendees to Kayla Rowe's wedding; pictured are Chelsea Randall, John Worth, Michelle Pigott, Jen Knutson, Sabrina Cummings, Kayla Rowe, Kristin Parrish, Jillian Okray, Emily Dietrich, and Melissa Maynard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crew lunch sitting around the location of the hearth found in 2014.</td></tr>
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Three weeks into our 2015 summer field school season, the PCF crew is making good progress in both the mission and sawmill areas of the site. On the terrace summit, excavations continue in two 1x2m units along the the possible wall-lines of the circular structure predicted to surround the burned clay hearth discovered last year (and around which our entire field crew had lunch this past week, sitting within what would have been the walls of this presumptive Apalachee structure; pictured above).<br />
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The southern unit intersected the clay-capped trenches we now believe resulted from an early 19th-century log skid road, and these features are currently being excavated to allow progress in the underlying and adjacent undisturbed mission-era midden and possible wall line (pictured below). Mission-era artifacts are still being produced in this unit (possible pipe bowl rim pictured below), with more doubtless to come once the later features are removed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma and Tyler carefully removing the yellow clay from the underlying trench fill.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyler holding a possible pipe bowl or tiny bowl fragment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sabrina bisecting the shallow postmold.</td></tr>
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The eastern unit has already produced a small, shallow post feature that may relate to benches or walls within the structure (pictured while being bisected, to left), as well as quite a bit of residential debris from the mission period, including abundant Apalachee ceramics, gunflint flakes, and a good number of small fragments of Spanish majolica dishes (pictured below).<br />
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The unit in Area C to the south that had been begun in 2014 was finally completed and backfilled this week, and detailed profiling of the stratigraphy and the clay-lined feature disturbance in it will help us interpret this unit in light of the line of three deep posts found just to the northwest in an adjacent unit last year (which we plan to explore next in this area).<br />
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To the east below the bluff edge, three excavations in Area F are probing the layout of the late 19th-century sawmill here. On the bluff slope, a 1x2m unit is still being lowered to the elevation of a brick floor discovered last year in a nearby shovel test. This flooring structure seems to have been covered in accumulated soil from higher up the slope, and while most of the overlying artifacts date to the mill period, some earlier material also appears in these deposits, presumably having washed in from above.<br />
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The nearby shovel test at the base of the bluff has dropped right on top of the edge of what initially appears to be some sort of clay floor or wall foundation, which is adjacent to (and partially mixed with) a rubble deposit with large broken bricks and brick fragments and other debris mixed with dirt. The explanation for these finds is still unknown, but continued excavation in this shovel test should provide important clues.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of brick rubble adjacent the clay feature in the shovel test (facing east).</td></tr>
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Farther east, a new 1x2m unit was just opened on Friday out in the middle of the sawmill structure on the shaded lower terrace, and also in the middle of the worst infestation of mosquitoes at the site. Roots are plentiful in this unit, including huge masses of greenbrier roots, such as the gargantuan one pictured below. Probing suggests there should be another brick floor in this area, and we have hopes that debris from the 1884 fire that destroyed Molino Mills might show up in this area, permitting us to learn more about the spatial layout of the mill and its machinery and work spaces.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle Pigott and Jen Knutson triumph over a greenbrier root; Kelsey and Melissa in background.</td></tr>
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In addition, we finally have our waterscreening station operational now (pictured below), allowing our crew to make better progress through the sometimes-dense clay deposits at the site.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waterscreening with Darby, Caroline, Tyler, Sabrina, and Jillian.</td></tr>
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A few pictures follow of some of the animal residents of the site, including our self-appointed field dog, "Precious" aka "Diggity Dog."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A green tree frog perching perilously close to some huge thorns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tussock moth caterpillar crawling on Emma.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our near constant field companion, "Precious" (or "Diggity Dog"); Tyler, Darby, and Kayla in background.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-33043051558386944162015-05-31T06:09:00.000-07:002015-05-31T06:09:32.509-07:00Progress despite the rains<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelsey Bruno holds an iron implement she just excavated.</td></tr>
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Two weeks into our 2015 field school, our crew continues to make steady progress, despite a number of delays and missed time due to rainy weather and saturated ground, along with the normal startup difficulties in getting our total station and new datums fully aligned with the existing site grid. One excavation located along the bluff slope has been effectively halted due to soggy ground, but a nearby shovel test at the foot of the bluff on the surface of the lower terrace has already begun to produce evidence of the sawmill that burned down here in 1884, including an iron tool or machine part (pictured above) and a possible corner brace, along with brick fragments. This shovel test should drop to the presumed floor level of the sawmill within a level or two, where previous probing with a steel rod suggests there may be a brick floor or other structural evidence.<br />
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Additional evidence for mill-era activity on the summit of the terrace where the mission had been located is also abundant as in previous years, including near-surface scatters of brick fragments, slag, charcoal, iron nails and other fragments, and late 19th-century glass and ceramics.<br />
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Notable finds this week include a heavy iron object that may be a tool or machine component (pictured to left), a distinctive brass fitting from an as-yet unidentified object or implement, and an intact cobalt blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle that appears to date between 1891 and 1907 (the latter two pictured below).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bromo-Seltzer medicine bottle made in Baltimore between 1891-1907.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brass fitting or fastener with decorative design on one side.</td></tr>
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Three 1x2 m excavation units in the mission area of the terrace summit made good progress this week, including one unit that was begun in 2014 and will be finished this year with the excavation of its base into sterile clay subsoil beneath an unusual clay-lined pit feature that appears to date to the sawmill period, but which falls in line with a series of three posts just to the west that we believe might be a mission-era structure wall, perhaps even the long sought-after church. Ongoing excavations in two units to the north have been laid in along the predicted southern and eastern wall lines of a possible Apalachee circular residential structure with a clay floor and hearth feature found last year (along with a possible roof-support post nearby). These units are both capped to some extent by what now appear to be post-mission-era clay deposits, one of which is currently theorized to have been a logging skidway with two parallel trenches and evenly-spaced trenches traversing it, resulting from the placement of round logs in the ground to assist in the dragging of felled trees across the ground to the sawmill (perhaps the early 19th-century sawmill operated at some distance west by Thomas Cooper). When the skid road was replaced by a short railroad line in the Reconstruction era, the logs seem to have been removed and the entire roadway covered with a layer of hard yellow clay to fill in the trenches. Later, another layer of mottled gray clay was also deposited over and around the roadway in this vicinity, and the amount of charcoal, slag, coal, and small brick fragments here might possibly represent the location of the blacksmith's shop documented for Molino Mills, or it could also be associated with the railroad engine that transported wood to the main rail line to the east. Pictures of these clay deposits are below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma Dietrich excavates the northern edge of the yellow clay that intrudes on mission deposits here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear stratigraphic relationship between dark modern humus, mottled gray clay below, and brown mission-era midden deposit below that.</td></tr>
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Underneath these clay deposits are the intact 18th-century midden deposit associated with the possible Apalachee structure. Students found several rimsherds of Mission Red pottery in one of these units this week, as well as an intact but battered small honey-colored chert gunflint (all pictured below). Within a few days we hope to begin seeing whether there are postholes extending below this midden representing the predicted wall line of the Apalachee structure surrounding the hearth found last year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"French-style" gunflint, probably pistol sized.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rounded rimsherd of a Mission Red vessel, painted on both sides.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flattened rimsherd of a different Mission Red vessel, also red on both sides.</td></tr>
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Below are additional photos of fieldwork since our last blog update. Stay tuned for more as we make further progress in Week 3.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia shovel-shaves the midden at the floor of her level.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darby works on cleaning up the base of the unit begun in 2014.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jodi and Emma team up to sift.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darby holds the stadia rod to take elevations; Jodi in background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyler shovel-shaves sawmill-era deposits in her unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla works to square up the base and walls of her shovel test at the base of the bluff.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-29598202830134138502015-05-19T16:33:00.000-07:002015-05-19T16:33:52.728-07:00First Day Back<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our full 2015 PCF field school crew (and field-dog-of-the-day)</td></tr>
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The summer field school season began to day at Molino, with a full crew, and lots of energy and enthusiasm, only mildly tempered by the claustrophobia-inducing swarms of hungry mosquitoes and early summer heat. Joined by undergraduate students Kelsey Bruno, Sabrina Cummings, Darby Gorin, and Tyler Huggins, the full crew (pictured above) quickly set to finalizing our first three 1x2 meter excavation units, two positioned at the predicted outer walls of a possible circular 18th-century Apalachee residential structure surrounding a probable <a href="http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/2014/07/hearths-posts-and-trenches-final-weeks.html" target="_blank">central hearth</a> discovered last year, and another along the edge of a <a href="http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/2014/05/one-week-down-nine-to-go.html" target="_blank">buried brick floor</a> also found last year below the terrace in association with the 19th-century sawmill next to the mission site. Students also got a start at re-excavating a backfilled unit-in-progress along the possible wall of a large structure that might be the long sought-after mission church, and a shovel test was staked in at the bluff base along the edge of the mill as well.<br />
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The day began with instruction and training sessions ranging from field note-taking to trowel-sharpening, and flat-shoveling to proper dirt-throwing, and our sights quickly turned to hammering in the final re-bar corner posts for our new units using triangulation in combination with our occasionally finicky total station laser transit. Sandbags were filled using backfill from last year, and paperwork and bags were begun, and while only one unit actually broke ground by the end of the day, we count today as a successful start to our 2015 field season. Pictures from today's work follow below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darby and Tyler practice sharpening their trowels.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla focuses on balancing the total station prism.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darby and Kelsey stake in a unit corner; also pictured are Emma, Sabrina, Tyler, and Jen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyler and Kelsey string in a new unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sabrina gets shovel-tossing right; also pictured, Tyler.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kelsey nails shovel-tossing; Jodi also pictured.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline and Sabrina get paperwork started for their new unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darby puts the first dirt of the season in the screen for Olivia to sift; also pictured, Jen.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-4458761432241720042015-05-15T16:32:00.002-07:002015-05-15T16:32:39.586-07:002015 Colonial Frontiers Field School Preparations<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(L-R) Jen, Kayla, Jodi, Emily, Melissa, Caroline, Olivia, and Jillian</td></tr>
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The stage is now set for the sixth Pensacola Colonial Frontiers archaeological field school, once again focusing on the mid-18th-century Mission San Joseph de Escambe, but this year including expanded fieldwork at the adjacent Reconstruction-era Molino Mills steam-powered sawmill (1866-1884), along with new shovel testing at a Second Spanish-era water-powered sawmill site farther south along the Escambia River, both of which are the respective thesis projects of this year's graduate field directors-in-training Melissa Maynard and Jillian Okray (pictured above). Our supervisory crew also includes four additional returning members of last year's crew, graduate student site supervisor Jen Knutson, graduate student supervisors-in-training Olivia Pitts and Jodi Preston, and recently-graduated Kayla Rowe, along with two newcomers to the PCF field school, graduate student supervisors-in-training Emily Dietrich and Caroline Peacock. Dr. John Worth will once again serve as principal investigator.<br />
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This week the supervisory crew prepared equipment and paperwork for the field school starting next week, and made several visits to the site, including half a day today (Friday), clearing brush, raking excavation areas, re-establishing the site mapping grid (with the much-appreciated help of UWF Archaeology Institute research associate Jennifer Melcher, also a veteran of the first two field seasons at the mission), and staking in new excavation units. While details will follow over the course of the next ten weeks of fieldwork, the pictures below show some of the activity from this week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa probes the lateral extent of a buried sawmill-era brick floor discovered last year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Melcher runs a training session on total station use; also pictured are Jodi, Olivia, Kayla, Caroline, and Emily.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the mission's reptilian denizens, the <span class="style83">Gulf Hammock Rat Snake <i>(Elaphe obsoleta williamsi</i>), climbing a tree.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In a curiously <a href="http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/2014/05/summer-rains-and-more-progress.html" target="_blank">familiar moment</a>, Dr. Worth tries to make friends with the snake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group picture of our crew at the end of the 2014 field school.</td></tr>
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The 2014 Pensacola Colonial Frontiers field school at Mission Escambe is now history, but work continues on our finds from the summer. In addition to posting a few shots of our intrepid crew during the final week of fieldwork and backfilling at the end of July (below), this post details recent work on the small Apalachee jar that was excavated at the site in July.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Worth carefully positions the jar with dirt still inside.</td></tr>
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The fractured vessel was removed whole, with all the original sediment within it still adhering to the vessel fragments on the outside. In September, the jar was x-rayed in the UWF archaeological conservation lab, providing for the first time a glimpse of the walls of the jar, which were clearly somewhat less complete than we had originally believed in the field. Nonetheless, the partial vessel had been discarded facing down in a pit excavated for a posthole, thus providing an unusually enclosed and protected environment for the interior of the pot, and the midden sediments that eventually settled there after burial. For this reason, the final excavation of these sediments, and the separation of the vessel fragments from the cast of the interior of the vessel, was done in such a way as to maximize the possibility for residue and sediment testing, a project currently being pursued by graduate student Jen Knutsen.<br />
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The pictures on this blog post detail both the x-ray process and the cleaning of the jar, leading to the exposure and cleaning of all the large fragments that had originally been deposited together in the partially-intact vessel. We will update the progress on this and other labwork through the year as we continue to try and learn more about the residents of Mission Escambe following five field seasons of archaeological work there, for which we continue to be grateful to Richard Marlow and his family for their hospitality and welcome.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A large fragment of the upper shoulder and flaring rim of the jar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cleaned fragments of the small brushed jar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trench in Area E half-filled with backdirt (and lined with landscape cloth).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea pours backdirt into a completed unit in Area G.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Marlow uses a tractor and front end loader to dump backdirt right in the wheelbarrows.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-24199023966135250032014-07-23T04:23:00.001-07:002014-07-23T04:23:34.393-07:00Hearths, posts, and trenches; final weeks in the field.We have entered the final week of the 2014 Colonial Frontiers field school, and although we haven't made a blog post in a while, the students and crew have been busily working to continue and wrap up their excavations at Mission Escambe before the close of field season this Friday, not to mention a one-day trip to do shovel testing at yet another site near Mystic Springs to the north of Molino. Rain delays this week are only making things even more challenging, but the photo essay below will provide a visual summary of all the work that has been accomplished and discoveries made. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa scrapes soil off the Area G clay hearth.</td></tr>
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In overview, two of our excavation areas have now produced remarkably similar evidence for burned clay hearth areas and rich debris-filled midden deposits, as well as deep postholes that may represent roof supports for the potential Apalachee structures in which the hearths were originally located. While the first hearth, first discovered in 2012 in Area E, seems to have been cleaned prior to being capped with additional clay and earth, the new hearth in Area G is associated with considerable deposits of charcoal and abundant bits of charred animal bone, presumably associated with cooking activities. We are still gathering as much evidence as possible so that we can better understand the context of these important features.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sawmill-era pit feature in Area C.</td></tr>
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Area C has produced a line of three very deep postholes running east-west across our first unit in the southern part of this area (an earlier unit was backfilled after completion to the north), but a unit placed just to the south and east of this line of posts produced an unexpected clay-ringed pit feature that seems to date to the sawmill era of the late 19th-century, inasmuch as a brick chunk was found underneath the clay rim. Excavations in these units are on hold this week after substantial weekend rains caused the water table to rise underneath our plastic tarps, making it impossible to continue excavations until the units dry out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katie excavates the stockade trench in sections in Area H.</td></tr>
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Area H continues to be excavated through a series of overlapping wall trenches, starting with the 50 cm-wide stockade trench cross-cutting the yellow clay cap layer that overlies other wall trenches running east-west and north-south. The similarity of these criss-crossing trenches to earlier excavations in Area C is unmistakeable, and we have yet to settle on an even remotely definitive conclusion as to what these features mean.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the idyllic swamp bottom surrounding Mystic Springs.</td></tr>
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Finally, excavations last Friday at Mystic Springs revealed at the very least evidence for prehistoric Native American occupation on an erosional remnant overlooking the cypress-tupelo swamp bottom adjacent to the Escambia River in this vicinity, but showers prompted an early close to excavations, so that project is on hold until we can bring a volunteer crew back later in the summer.<br />
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Additional photos of all these activities are below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the deep posts adjacent to the Area E hearth.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jodi and Chelsea working on backfilling their first unit in Area C.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin, Jen, Melodi, and Chelsea laying in a new unit in Area G.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin excavating in Area G.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen explaining Area G excavations to members of the Pensacola Archaeological Society.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian showing Area C to the PAS visitors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Several mendable sherds of Puebla Blue on White majolica from Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Polychrome majolica sherds from Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An aboriginal pipe stem fragment from Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin, Melissa, Olivia, and Jen beginning a shovel test at Mystic Springs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa, Melodi, and Chelsea at Mystic Springs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla, Jodi, and Jillian at Mystic Springs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa, Jen, Kristin, and Olivia completing a shovel test at Mystic Springs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian setting up for a final photo of a shovel test at Mystic Springs.</td></tr>
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Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-30921729998346577452014-07-09T19:08:00.000-07:002014-07-09T19:10:20.234-07:00An amazing find today<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kandiss and Michelle when pot was first found.</td></tr>
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While there is much more to report and more pictures to share, one discovery today deserves its own post (and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazzDaihEoI" target="_blank">video</a> at the bottom of this post). In Area G today, during the excavation of the rich midden deposit beneath the clay floor/cap layer, undergraduate student Kandiss Cambell made a completely unexpected discovery in the form of a small whole Apalachee pot. While potsherds both small and large are commonly found while shovel scraping the midden deposits, Kandiss' careful and attentive work revealed that the pottery fragment she barely scraped with her shovel was much larger than any yet found at Mission Escambe, and in fact turned out to be a nearly complete small flaring rim jar apparently discarded two and a half centuries ago because a small portion of its lip had broken off. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen Knutson pauses from excavating the jar.</td></tr>
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Careful examination of the soil stains at this level revealed no discernible pit outlines within which the pot might have been buried, but it was close enough to an adjacent large posthole pit outline that it may have been associated with backfilling that posthole. Another alternative is that the pot was broken within a residential
structure that burned, and was subsequently buried with fill dirt and
capped with clay (which would account for the abundant charcoal and
charred bone fragments in this layer). <br />
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Although we will explore the area around the jar tomorrow in order to learn more about its context and the circumstances of its deposition, the vessel was removed and transported to the lab in order to ensure that impending rain this afternoon did not damage it. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The excavated jar in situ nearly ready to be removed.</td></tr>
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We hope to be able to excavate the contents of the vessel under controlled conditions in the lab so that we may find evidence for its original contents and/or use, potentially exploring chemical residues inside the vessel, as well as any pollen grains or plant phytoliths that might have survived inside the protected conditions of the jar.<br />
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Videos of the excavation of the pot have been compiled together in the link below.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/xazzDaihEoI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazzDaihEoI</a><br />
<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-39425237780757559042014-07-04T14:13:00.001-07:002014-07-04T14:31:09.823-07:00Week seven update<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excavating a rich midden in Area G.</td></tr>
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It's been more than a week since our last update, not due to lack of good progress or finds, but mostly due to the often overwhelming heat and humidity we've been experiencing out at Molino since the midpoint of our 10-week excavation season. Much of our interpretation of architectural features and other artifact and stratigraphic data is still in development, though at this point it seems certain that the excavation units in Area E are associated with a clay-floored structure with abundant residential debris and a possible central hearth, while our newest unit in Area G is also penetrating a rich residential midden deposit with substantial amounts of charred wood, burned clay, and mission-era artifacts, possibly pointing to a burned structure. The units in Area H are definitely associated with a thick yellow-clay "floor" deposit apparently overlying probable intersecting wall trenches (just as in Area C), and cross-cut by the 1760 stockade trench, currently being excavated. The northern unit in Area C is now finished down to sterile subsoil (having penetrated a sawmill-era trash-filled trench or basin, possibly a borrow pit, as well as a mission-era corncob smudge pit), and a new unit was opened yesterday next to the southernmost unit in Area C, where a line of three apparent large, deep postholes paralleling a higher wall trench may indicate the presence of a large single-post structure here at the highest level area of the site.<br />
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In subsequent posts, we will doubtless focus in on interpretations of all these structural features and activity areas, but in the meantime, photos have been accumulating, which are presented below in the form of an informal photo essay.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melodi, Kayla, and Jillian enjoying simultaneous work on a line of three posthole features (picture by Ericha Sappington).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jodi taking a profile photo of the finished unit in Area C, showing the subsoil overlain by mission-era midden and a sawmill-era trench cutting through it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A light moment in Area G, with Jillian, Katie, Jen, and Michelle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jodi and Chelsey working on profiles in Area C.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle, Katie, and Jillian hard at work keeping up with paperwork.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea cleaning up loose dirt after profile cleaning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa at the newest unit in Block 5 in Area E, opened in search of a possible wall line extending south.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla works on profiling one of three deep posthole pits lining up under a wall trench in Area C.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle explains Block 5 excavations to visiting UWF students and staff from the Arcadia field school.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ericha carefully excavates the north half of the burned clay hearth feature in Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole cleaning the floor of the new unit in Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Worth, Kayla, and volunteer Michael Okray (Jillian's husband) in Area C (picture by Melissa Maynard).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin and Michelle work on the newest unit in Area H, while Melissa holds the stadia rod to take elevations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole gengly brushing away dirt from a new find of majolica in Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same sherd after excavation, the waisted base of a small taza or pocillo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A classic example of Ocmulgee Fields style incision on a carinated bowl.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wonderful layout of food brought for our annual holiday lunch cookout; thanks to all students for making this such a tasty break from normal field lunches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visiting UNF student volunteer Amberly Aldridge, with Jillian and Michael (picture by Ericha Sappington).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa and Jen starting in on the food (picture by Ericha Sappington).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Worth serving home-brewed "black drink" (cassina tea) to Amberly (picture by Ericha Sappington).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cooking hotdogs at the Molino boat ramp (picture by Ericha Sappington). </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Worth interacting with the local wildlife again (picture by Kayla Rowe).</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZ9jfOsLSUl3cbO0_HWBA_Z0wRVMqnr3yxFQQ_sgOsjlkrhXFwlfhNFUXQiGKfBLuT64oXAQ0UqC9d1DIlma_W7r1iX57FeiN63gxzm4D6wJc0RJy7nDmF6iMDea94XIHXi-gJgGatapN/s1600/P7011031.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-21803955268315845922014-06-24T16:14:00.000-07:002014-06-24T16:16:39.225-07:00Week six begins last half of field school<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panorama of the excavations taken atop a ladder in Area H.</td></tr>
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Excavations at Mission Escambe continue this week, marking the beginning of our last five weeks this summer. Starting last Friday, we've actually had three successive midday rainouts, only the most recent of which (today) didn't result in a complete drenching for the entire crew. Nevertheless, progress continues in all open units, including two units recently opened in Areas E and G (a new area with our newest clay floor), with yet another new unit just laid in today in Area H (our most recent area, characterized by a clay floor discovered while tracing out the stockade wall southward along the eastern margins of the site). <br />
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It now appears that the substantial clay "floor" feature that we have been chasing in Area C since 2009 is not alone at the site, and that we have another one of undetermined extent somewhat to the north of Area C (now called Area G), and a third one directly east of Area C (now called Area H). The last floor feature currently holds the most potential for revealing the architectural context of these clay layers, since not only was this floor truncated by the excavation of what we believe is the 1760 stockade wall trench (Feature 512 above), but it also apparently had two discrete projections northward along its northern margin (Features 511 and 513 above) which appear to be large postholes, possibly forming a wall line for the anticipated structure atop the clay floor. These postholes were obviously set in at the same time as the basin for the yellow clay floor was excavated, since the clay is continuous between the two, so we hope further excavations of these features will tease out important details.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soil coring helps us identify the extent of yellow clay here.</td></tr>
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In order to find the lateral boundaries of this clay floor, Katie Brewer and Michelle Pigott (pictured, left) have excavated a number of 1/2 inch diameter soil cores in the vicinity, demonstrating first that the clay floor here is isolated from those in Area C and G some 20 meters to the west, and that it apparently measures about 6-7 meters east-west and perhaps 2 meters north-south. Based on these measurements, we have laid in another 1x2 meter unit on the prospective northwest corner of this clay floor in order to see if there are more postholes or other architectural traces that will reveal the nature of this structure and its apparent prepared clay floor.<br />
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Among several interesting finds over the past few days, one that sparked considerable excitement was the lead seal discovered Friday in Area C, pictured to right. The seal is the second one found at Mission Escambe, the first one having been found during 2009 excavations in Area B. This one is very similar to the last one, including numbers probably denoting the number of inches comprised in a particular bolt of cloth, as well as a possible manufacturer's name on the top, which on both seals began with the initial "L." These may represent seals from bolts of English cloth brought to the site either as illicit goods bought by the 1757-1761 governor of Spanish Pensacola, Miguel Roman de Castilla y Lugo, or through trade with the Upper Creek Indians, who are known to have frequented the site during this period, and who also traded with the English from Georgia and South Carolina.<br />
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Finally, during the rush to finish up excavations and gather paperwork and equipment before the impending rainstorm arrived early this afternoon, as a new excavation level was beginning to be dug in the newest unit in Area E, an iron horseshoe identified last Friday was removed as part of a new excavation level beginning to be dug in the sawmill-era deposits in our newest unit in Area E. The video below shows the removal of the horseshoe (and the sounds of the birds and other student activity going on at the same time are notable as well, though the video quality is lower resolution here than the original).<br />
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Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-3811541776775956922014-06-20T04:03:00.000-07:002014-06-20T04:03:03.966-07:00Mission San Luis: a visit to the Apalachee homeland<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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On Thursday, Pensacola Colonial Frontiers field school students joined students in the other UWF terrestrial field schools in a trek east to Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, the reconstructed capital of the Apalachee province between 1656 and 1704 (and possible birthplace of some of Mission Escambe's population). The visit was highlighted by meeting Director of Archaeology Dr. Bonnie McEwan at the archaeology laboratory, and a special guided tour of the lab and site by Senior Archaeologist Jerry Lee, who has been conducting excavations at the site for twenty years. Pictures from the day are below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Archaeologist Jerry Lee explains the archaeological map of the Council House.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jerry shows the centerline of the original San Luis church, offset from the reconstruction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students enjoy a little atlatl (spear-thrower) practice next to the fort.</td></tr>
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All photos below by Jen Knutson.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colonial Frontiers student Nicole Capitano throws a spear; Campus Survey student Cole Smith to left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jerry Lee holding a small Apalachee pot recovered from a clay borrow pit next to the deputy governor's house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Worth and Bonnie McEwan in the San Luis lab.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cole Smith perusing the lab collections.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa Maynard looking at Spanish majolica dishes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melodi Hacker checking out assorted Spanish ceramics.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UWF field school students inspecting the artifact collections.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-30354861599339007492014-06-18T18:02:00.000-07:002014-06-18T18:06:53.126-07:00Return to Mission Escambe<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg_pPo3FSNMPgGxzinpROGeI1Rl96hqQLikUmUdPloEJalKN4RRIGiBB92OjTTcKl_wtsxeKMbyHo2upkyIr6-hoQYbOvW8dMMke_FFmCmTX_tzg7a8TSS6DuEDuvQNiajImY8hdcyhWm/s1600/P6180908_edited.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia holding a foot-ring base of a Spanish majolica sherd.</td></tr>
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Following our week of testing in search of Los Tobases, the Colonial
Frontiers crew returned to our ongoing excavations at Mission Escambe,
where the units we covered in week three were re-opened and resumed.
Most of our excavation units are well into the 18th-century mission-era
deposits, and new discoveries are appearing daily.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cleaned clay floor in Area E showing multicolored burned area.</td></tr>
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In Area E, the long
multi-unit Block 5 is still pushing down into the burned clay floor (pictured left) and
midden deposits beneath, and the two postholes found previously along
the eastern end of the easternmost unit have been bisected and their
profiles are being carefully exposed in order to learn more about the
potential structure wall they may have been part of. More and more
Native American pottery is appearing in this area, along with occasional
fragments of colonial glass and Spanish majolica, such as part of the
foot-ring base of a brimmed plato found today (see picture above).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of mill-era trash deposit next to intact mission deposits.</td></tr>
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Area
C is still producing intriguing and unexpected results, including what
appears to be at least one and possibly two east-west wall trenches, as
well as another possible wall trench intersecting at a perpendicular
angle, which could be either a cross-cutting trench or a
long-sought-after building corner (we are hoping for the latter). The
other excavation unit in Area C, located to the north, seems to have a
backfilled trench or borrow pit possibly dug as part of the construction
of a 19th-century railroad berm immediately to the north (running from
the Molino train depot to the riverside landing at Molino Mills between
1866 and 1884), and <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea and Jodi working on mill-era debris next to the railroad berm.</td></tr>
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the debris in this trench is characteristic of the
material from this era at the site, including brick fragments and
railroad spikes and other rusted iron objects. The base of this unit
now exposes at the same level both the undisturbed mission-era deposits
underlying the corn-cob smudge pit excavated previously, along with the
basal portion of this 19th-century trench paralleling the railroad berm
(see pictures above).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Area G clay cap layers and midden deposit beneath.</td></tr>
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A new shovel test opened in what we are now calling Area G, located just to the west of the main mission area we have been focusing on, unexpectedly penetrated a gray and yellow clay floor layer just like those previously found to the south-southeast in Area C (pictured above), <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cody holding artifacts from the new shovel test in Area G</td></tr>
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and just as was the case there, the midden deposits beneath were rich in occupational debris from the mission period, including aboriginal potsherds, gunflint chips, a case bottle fragment, a majolica sherd, a wrought iron nail (pictured right).<br />
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Below are additional pictures from our first three days back at Mission Escambe, including today's visit by the students and crew of the UWF Campus Survey field school under Dr. Ramie Gougeon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia and Nicole map a profile section in Area E before a new unit is opened to the south.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa and Kristin keeping records for the western unit in Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea and Jodi working on the 19th-century mill-era debris filling a trench or pit next to the railroad berm.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ericha explains Area E excavations to the Campus Survey visitors.</td></tr>
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Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-90764169243999907462014-06-18T05:16:00.002-07:002014-06-18T05:16:35.350-07:00Wrapup at Mystic SpringsColonial Frontiers students wrapped up our first phase of shovel testing at Mystic Springs at the end of last week, having dug more than 50 shovel tests at relatively close intervals along the terrace margin of the Escambia River. We also completed a topographic map of the area tested, showing slight variations in elevation that likely played a role in human occupation on the landform. While analysis of the artifacts found will await our fall lab class, field observations demonstrate that there was regular human occupation concentrated along higher ground near the riverside for many centuries prior to European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries. We even found evidence of early 20th-century debris including one whole medicine bottle and several fragments. While we have yet to find unequivocal evidence of any 18th-century Creek Indian occupation in the area we tested, there are several other locations on the same and nearby terrace locations that hold considerable promise for the location of Los Tobases, and we have acquired permission to conduct testing on some of those already, and plan to do so later this summer.<br />
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The pictures at the bottom are supplemented by some really great time-lapse photography of various aspects of our fieldwork at Mystic Springs taken by Neal Collier and edited into a short silent film just below.<br />
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And below is a short video of a bunch of students sifting the last dirt from our last shovel test on a particularly hot day. <br />
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Still shots of some of our fieldwork during the latter part of last week, and some of the artifacts found, are below. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As many hands as possible join to sift the last of the dirt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa and Michelle enjoying some cold watermelon brought by Neal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hard working Melody being supervised by the entire rest of the field school, watermelon in hand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An intact medicine bottle dating to between 1915 and 1929.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bottle neck from the same shovel test.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prehistoric pottery, including Tucker Ridge Pinched and indefinite check stamped, possibly Wakulla or Deptford.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-54495958325661236512014-06-12T03:42:00.002-07:002014-06-12T03:43:09.021-07:00Continuing the search for Los Tobases, plus a rain day field trip<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Our students are taking a planned week-long break from ongoing excavations at Mission Escambe to continue the search for the Upper Creek town of Los Tobases just four leagues to the north along the Escambia River near Mystic Springs, Florida. Shovel tests are the order of the day here, with five teams of students digging 3-5 tests per day through yellow sands in search of traces of ancient occupation. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJjv1L5ZT5QT91VaYSiWDR_QRcYneeZjeGtKTSyGbwdiu_hA5ZNplnI2uwzAxVHtHn-l8573ok3dTTYXa-lksNIjgmmTHII3GcWVk_0nOrf0Na2nVFYnlJkGuYYq0qMqgbImEcpMcVKbP/s1600/P6090852.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJjv1L5ZT5QT91VaYSiWDR_QRcYneeZjeGtKTSyGbwdiu_hA5ZNplnI2uwzAxVHtHn-l8573ok3dTTYXa-lksNIjgmmTHII3GcWVk_0nOrf0Na2nVFYnlJkGuYYq0qMqgbImEcpMcVKbP/s1600/P6090852.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a>In addition to these tests, we have established a new map grid and are in the process of creating a detailed topographic map of the site in order to see whether there are any high spots in the generally flat landscape.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJjv1L5ZT5QT91VaYSiWDR_QRcYneeZjeGtKTSyGbwdiu_hA5ZNplnI2uwzAxVHtHn-l8573ok3dTTYXa-lksNIjgmmTHII3GcWVk_0nOrf0Na2nVFYnlJkGuYYq0qMqgbImEcpMcVKbP/s1600/P6090852.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Artifacts from many time periods are appearing frequently during the testing, including numerous potsherds dating to the late prehistoric Pensacola culture, and others from earlier Weeden Island and other cultures. There is clearly an archaeological site here extending from one documented years ago farther north along the river, but as yet we have no definitive evidence for the 1730s/1759-1761 Creek occupation that we are searching for. We have two more days of testing coming up, so there is still time to continue the search.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizsdgUPOusVe5TsKpE5dErcDPWgFVIx4wXeVbtjzUQzRuDiAuvZIdyduL6DgmHk4d_TFkcCQh9LFdxrSSfXtCRPamclGccERMeOnZStdZRpnNfcXfOS-aonWUunjHWkqMikbbuGmgz53wB/s1600/P6100864.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Wednesday was a rain day, and the students spent the morning rough-sorting artifacts from the Molino site, and took a fun field trip to the Fort Walton Temple Mound Museum during the afternoon. Pictures of our activities this week follow below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kandiss works on cleaning up the base of a shovel test.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rimsherd of Carabelle Incised pottery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very nice burnished and carefully incised Pensacola sherd.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nicely incised sherd.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Melcher leads students in rough sorting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia, Melody, and Michelle rough sorting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunchtime during the field trip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students touring the Temple Mound Museum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melody and Chelsea trying out the bowdrill.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katie and Michelle admiring a touring collection of art about the Calusa Indians.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalya delivering an impromptu lecture....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group picture atop the temple mound.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The silly version...</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-74374950096502758652014-06-09T04:32:00.000-07:002014-06-09T04:32:27.489-07:00Clarity and ambiguity at the end of week three<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kandiss scoops postmold fill out with a teaspoon.</td></tr>
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As we wrap up week three at Mission Escambe, the Colonial Frontiers
field school is finally getting some clarity in terms of the
architectural features and activity areas we have been searching for
this year, but (as usual) mixed with a considerable dose of ambiguity as
well. The remains of the burned clay floor in Area E, originally
identified in the 2012 season, has now been almost fully exposed in our
two new 1x2m excavation units on either side of the original unit, and
it is becoming increasingly clear that the clay floor was burned
intensely in one area, but not in others, and the burned/heated area
tapers off from the center to the outside. There is no evidence that
the clay itself represents a recessed firepit, but instead the flat clay
surface seems to have been burned from above. Nevertheless, there is
precious little evidence of the amount of charcoal or ash that one might
expect from either a burned roof or wall-collapse, or from a surface
hearth, though the latter possibility would be an explanation if it were
routinely swept clean.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overhead view of postholes (one bisected), north to right.</td></tr>
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Just
under two meters away from the burned area, along the east wall of one
unit, are two large posts spaced 58 cm apart from one another, and
oriented as if they were part of a wall that ran roughly 10 degrees west
of due north, parallel to the "stripes" or "ridges" of clay that we
have been finding right at the surface of the clay floor in both units.
At this point, no wall trenches have yet been found, so the two large
posts that penetrate the clay floor to the east may indicate that we
have found a single-post structure, perhaps built more in Apalachee
style than Spanish (the Spanish generally used wall-trenches to set wall
posts in 18th-century Florida). If this is the case, and if the burned
floor does indeed result from the April 9, 1761 attack and fire that
destroyed the mission, then this might be the run-down former friary
that the cavalry soldiers were staying in when attacked. On the other
hand, it could also represent the house for the chief Juan Marcos, or an
undocumented Apalachee council house or townhouse at the site. Only
further excavation will provide clues leading to answers (we hope).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiny metal earring part.</td></tr>
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Excavations
in Area C have proceeded into 18th-century mission deposits as well,
and an east-west feature in the southernmost unit resembles the surface
trace of a buried wall trench, possibly representing yet another
east-west wall in the possible church area of the mission. We are still
hoping for a corner here or in the other unit in this area, but at the
very least we are finding interesting features such as yet another
corn-cob smudge pit, as well as mission-era artifacts, including
abundant Apalachee ceramics and European trade goods including part of a
metal earring (pictured).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea and Kayla map a plan view of their unit.</td></tr>
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A new shovel test to the
west of the main mission compound has been completed as well, and
another is planned for our next dig day at Molino. In the meantime,
however, our students are off to Mystic Springs for broad-scale
shovel-testing at the potential location for the Upper Creek site called
Los Tobases, occupied at least during the period from 1759 to 1761, and
likely also during the 1730s and perhaps earlier as well. The summer
heat is only increasing, and the new site will be much more exposed to
sunlight, so this should be an interesting change of pace for week four.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole compares soil colors in the Munsell book during mapping.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Worth joins in the fun over the presumed stockade line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea bisects another posthole opposite the burned clay floor area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jodi carefully excavates the burned area of the clay floor in Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fragment of the mouth of an 18th-century bottle apparently shattered atop the burned clay floor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia and both Melissas work on their unit in Area C.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A good example of the pinched rim of an 18th-century Apalachee pot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice English-style gunflint from Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteer Nicole Rosenberg Marshall works with Ericha on the clay floor in Area E.</td></tr>
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The Pensacola Colonial Frontiers field school continues to make solid progress, and in many excavation units is just beginning to push through the 19th-century sawmill deposits and into the underlying mission deposits predating 1761. The last days of Week 2 were sporadically interrupted or cut short by rain, and today, the first of Week 3, was cooler under cloudy skies and threat of rain, but we've been pleased with the results of our students' work, and have begun to make finds from Mission Escambe.<br />
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Most of the artifacts found so far date to the 19th or 20th centuries, including nails, railroad spikes, glass, and brick fragments associated with the Molino Mills era, but most of our units are already producing evidence for the Apalachee Indian residents of Mission Escambe, including plain, brushed and incised pottery. More importantly, excavations in Area E are beginning to show evidence for the yellow clay that we have come to associate with mission-era structural remains at the site. The next few days should be very revealing as we proceed downward into the 1760s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch around the open units (prepared to cover if it rains).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fragments of sawmill-era sheet metal in the shovel test below the bluff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another pair of 20th-century bottle rims (one inside another) from Area B.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A post-mission bottle rim from Area C.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another denizen of the mission, a turtle laying eggs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle and Dr. Bratten positions an iron object on the X-ray table.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">X-ray of a large rectangle of solid iron from Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">X-ray of a metal strap, possibly a barrel band.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colonial Frontiers students touring the Wentworth Museum on our rain day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wall panel describing Mission Escambe in the revised Wentworth Museum exhibit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group shot, including a couple of guests (Edmund Patch and a strangely quiet fisherman). </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin and Nicole troweling in Area C.</td></tr>
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With a morning fieldwork rain delay and a drenching at the end of the
day yesterday, and more rain forecast for today, the crew is taking the
day for some local museum visitation while we hope for better weather
tomorrow. Our first two days on this Memorial Day week were productive,
and we're finally beginning to push downward through the late
19th-century sawmill deposits into the remains of Mission Escambe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A chert gunflint (?) fragment in Area C.</td></tr>
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Our two units in Area C, the possible church/friary area, are making good progress, and the southernmost (above) is coming down on top of yet another clay layer, though as yet we don't know how or if it's related to the thick clay layers to the immediate north, which we have long suspected to be prepared structure floors. This southern unit has also produced a chunk of what may be French-style gunflint chert, as well as a piece of porcelain that might be from the mission period (though it could be later). Most of the mission-era debris actually underlies the clay caps, but there are some 18th-century materials on top of it, probably relating to the brief period of mission occupation after the 1760 construction project halted by an August 12 hurricane, and before the April 9, 1761 destruction of the mission in a raid by Alabama Indians (a subdivision of the Upper Creeks).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsea, Jen, Katie, and Kayla photo-cleaning in Area E.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ericha and Jodi photo cleaning the adjacent unit in Area E.</td></tr>
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The units in Area E are both approaching the zone of yet another apparent floor deposit, this time one that showed surface burning and relatively abundant Spanish debris that suggests it might have been the barracks in the center of the stockaded compound at the mission after 1760. These units, like all the rest, are struggling to get through the root zone just under the forest surface, and will likely progress somewhat more quickly once the deeper deposits are encountered. Nonetheless, this area may represent the burned floor of a pivotal structure in the mission's history, and so the placement of artifacts and the configurations of floor layers and potential wall trenches will have to be excavated with great care in order to reveal as much as possible about this area of the pristine archaeological site. <br />
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Dr. Worth also staked in a new 1x2 meter unit and began excavations on Wednesday in the area to the east of the church/friary area, hoping to discover further evidence for the eastern curtain wall of the stockaded compound built by Spanish Engineer Phelipe Feringan Cortes in 1760. We discovered its northeast corner and part of the eastern wall in 2012, but additional excavations are needed to discover how far south it extends, and this unit (in Area B) will provide us an opportunity to trace this fortification.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cody cleans around a sawmill-era brick in the next shovel test.</td></tr>
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Finally, our second shovel test once again penetrated the 1866 - 1884 Molino Mills deposits at the foot of the bluff where the mission is located. Handmade brick chunks and abundant iron artifacts are appearing in the upper layers, and some sort of feature was discovered by the end of work on Wednesday, so further exploration there should be interesting.<br />
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On a final note, we've been getting "up close and personal" with some of the local reptilian life, and a few pictures of our neighbors at the site follow below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Ribbon Snake (<i>Thamnophis sauritus</i>) in some Chinese privet on the site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of a Gray Rat Snake (<i>Pantherophis spiloides)</i> next to the screening station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cody clears debris off the brick floor.</td></tr>
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Students finished out their first four-day week at Mission Escambe today, having opened and made progress in four 1 x 2 meter excavation units and one 50 x 50 cm stratigraphic shovel test. All units are still largely within the 19th-century sawmill deposits associated with Molino Mills (1866-1884), located immediately below the site on the lower terrace next to the Escambia River swamp. The shovel test being excavated on the slope below the mission by Cody and Melissa gave us quite a surprise today, however, when it bottomed out on a laid brick floor about two meters below the upper terrace, and somewhat over a meter or so above the lower terrace where the mill was located. This exact same kind of brick floor was discovered on the floor of the mill to the east in a previous field season, but at a lower elevation, on which the main floor of the sawmill seems to have been situated (and at the level of two machine foundations, one brick and one made of huge granite blocks, both with large iron screw anchors). We don't know what this upper floor was used for, but the amount of burned debris immediately on the surface of the brick floor dates it to the 1884 fire that destroyed Molino Mills.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jodi pauses from flat shoveling.</td></tr>
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The rest of the excavation units are steadily pushing downward toward their respective goals, including two units in Area C designed to find evidence for two parallel wall-trenches discovered in 2012, believed to have been part of the same structure, with a width of 7.5 meters on the east-west axis. Two other units in Area E are laid in around last season's discovery of a shallow burned clay floor in a rich midden deposit with a higher density of Spanish debris than found in any other area of the site so far. We hope to discover whether the clay floor is associated with some sort of mission structure, and to that end we hope we will find one or more wall trenches below the midden in these units (along with further artifactual evidence for the function of this central area of the site).<br />
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We now have all areas of the site set up for our summer field school, including several dry-screening areas and a waterscreening station as in previous years. The pictures below show a range of activities this week, all of which will resume next Tuesday after the well-deserved Memorial Day break (thanks to Jen Knutson for sharing some of her candid pictures, supplementing Dr. Worth's images).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla and Kandiss flat-shovel their root-filled units.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole and Kristin work on shovel-tossing dirt from their unit while Jillian trims roots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa and Cody take depth measurements in their shovel test.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen cuts roots while Kayla and Chelsea work on cleaning up walls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ericha looks on while Kandiss and Michelle straightening unit walls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cody and Melissa inspect waterscreening results from their shovel test.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunchtime at the Molino fairgrounds, with Jodi, Kristin, Nicole, Dr. Worth, and Kandiss.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-36659123523727977212014-05-20T15:01:00.002-07:002014-05-20T15:01:33.383-07:002014 Fieldwork Begins<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Under a blue sky and warm late spring weather, UWF's 2014 Colonial Frontiers field school got off to a great start today, with a full crew. Pictured to right are (back row): Michelle Pigott (field director), Kristin Parrish, Olivia Pitts, Melissa Poppy, Melodi Hacker, Cody James (student supervisor), Jodi Preston, Nicole Capitano, Kandiss Campbell, Katie Brewer (site supervisor), Jen Knutson (student supervisor), Jillian Utter (student supervisor), Ericha Sappington (student supervisor), (front row) Melissa Maynard (student supervisor), Chelsea Randall, and Kayla Rowe. Today's work included instruction in trowel sharpening, flat shoveling, laying in and stringing excavation units, field paperwork, and general site clearing and other equipment setup. Tomorrow we plan to begin four new excavation units and one new shovel test, and hopefully Mission Escambe will begin to yield up more of its secrets to us in our fifth year of fieldwork.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle reviews the total station with the crew.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian aims the total station at the stadia rod (Jen and Ericha in background).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle and Jillian working with the wireless data collector for the total station.</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-8441070549564774622014-05-13T16:46:00.000-07:002014-05-13T16:46:46.661-07:00Preparations begin for 2014 Pensacola Colonial Frontiers field schoolLess than a week remains before the UWF summer archaeology field school season officially begins, and preparations have shifted into high gear this week. Field director Michelle Pigott and four of our grad student supervisors spent the first couple of days organizing paperwork and gathering equipment for our 10-week field season at Mission Escambe. Tomorrow is our first setup day on site, but the pictures below show some of the preparations so far.<br />
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-24292655679178398982014-04-11T16:21:00.002-07:002014-04-11T16:23:56.634-07:00Continued archaeological testing along the Escambia<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Shovel testing continued today at the possible location of the Creek town of Los Tobases along the Escambia River near McDavid, Florida. Under the field direction of UWF graduate student Michelle Pigott, the field crew including four other grad students (Katie Brewer, Melissa Maynard, Ericha Sappington, and Jillian Utter, all pictured to left) and their professor (John Worth) excavated four new shovel tests near the ones completed two weeks ago, finding additional evidence for Native American occupation including potsherds and quartzite flakes in most of the units. The river was swollen following recent rains upriver, highlighting the importance of the higher terrace ground where the site is located. We were also joined by self-described "colorful local guide" Neal Collier. Pictures from the fieldwork are below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian lands a perfect shovel toss, with Melissa and Ericha at the screen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle catches up on her notes in the swinging bench</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katie supervises while Jillian digs and Melissa sifts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian watches Melissa and Ericha cleaning the walls of the deep shovel test</td></tr>
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<br />Pensacola Colonial Frontiers Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17289619956821805609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667585176269597407.post-65031323374050644992014-03-30T10:12:00.000-07:002014-03-30T10:29:48.614-07:00Shovel Testing North of Mission Escambe<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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This weekend a small crew of current and incoming UWF graduate students under the leadership of Michelle Pigott conducted shovel testing at a previously unexplored location near McDavid, Florida, finding Native American ceramics in all three tests. The site is being explored as a prospective location for the mid-18th-century Upper Creek (Tallapoosa) town called Los Tobases (the Tawasas), which was in existence at least during the 1730s, which seems to have been abandoned after the establishment of Mission Escambe a few leagues to the south in 1741, and which was later reoccupied by a group of some 30 men and their wives and children between 1759 and 1761, after a formal 1758 peace treaty with the Spanish. Abandoned during the 1761 outbreak of hostilities that resulted in the burning of Mission Escambe and all other Spanish out-settlements north of Pensacola, the town does not appear on historic maps, but its location can be predicted based on a combination of distance descriptions and geographic features.<br />
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Three shovel tests were excavated by the crew following a previous day of heavy rains, and even though the riverside terrace soil was sandy, it nonetheless proved difficult to sift, particularly for one test unit. Regardless, all three tests produced evidence for Native American occupation dating to several time periods, including both prehistoric Woodland and Mississippi period (Pensacola culture) potsherds. Although final diagnosis awaits artifact washing and analysis, preliminary inspection in the field indicates that some of the sherds likely date to the colonial period, perhaps even belonging to Los Tobases. Even if we were lucky enough to find the Creek town on our first day of fieldwork in the target zone, only additional testing will provide the evidence we need to evaluate whether or not the sherds recovered belong to the mid-18th-century Creeks known to have resided in that vicinity. This summer's field school at Mission Escambe will likely include additional testing at this newly-discovered site, since the residents of Los Tobases were nearest neighbors of Escambe, and knew each other personally for at least a couple of years.<br />
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More pictures of our fieldwork are below. The student crew included Molino fieldschool veterans Michelle Pigott and Katie Brewer, along with newer students Jen Knutson, Melissa Maynard, Katherine Sims, and Jillian Utter (with professor John Worth behind the camera).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian, Melissa, Michelle, Jen, and Katherine at the first test (ST#1).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melissa and Jillian excavating ST#2.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle examining riverbank profile soils using the Munsell chart.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle, Jillian, and Melissa preparing ST#2 for photos.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen and Katherine forcing wet sand through the screen.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katherine and Jen taking final measurements for ST#1.</td></tr>
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