Today was another quite interesting day. We moved a lot of dirt today, clearing away the wall we found yesterday. After a few minutes, we hit the back wall to one of the rooms our square is adjacent to. There is a small corner that these two walls make, and it is this area that I focused my efforts today. And those efforts paid off. After we found the second wall, I was clearing out the corner of the two walls when I came upon this...
We're not entirely sure what this is. However, we do know that it has some iron in it from the rust that we can see. It's a long metal spike of some sort. It's not a nail- the head's too small, and it's too thin. It may be some sort of a tool, or possibly a door hinge. But we'll have to clean it up to see what it turns out to be.
We did a lot of more digging, and got down to the better stones along the main wall we were working on. We dug along the wall to see how long it is, and how far it goes. However, we didn't get very far before we found the end of it. This was quite unexpected as we were expecting it to go well past our square. But we kept digging, trying to keep the square at least somewhat level. It was then that we found that the wall keeps going! It turns out that what we thought was the end of the wall is actually the side of a doorway (or at least that's what it appears to be right now.) We don't have much of the wall cleared at that level, so we'll see what tomorrow brings.
So, over the past couple of days, I've been making some pretty cool finds. With the pendant yesterday (which I'll update you later on, but is really exciting!) and the metal spike today, it leads me to wonder how I can find these things. It is actually a familiar problem for me. Those of you who know of my petosky hunting skills are quite aware of the situation. For those of you who don't know, the petosky stone is the state stone of Michigan, and is, because of it's limited geographical location, more rare than diamonds. Anyway, I find these almost every time I go out in Lake Michigan (or even just the beach for that matter.) And people always ask me how I find them. And in both cases, here's the answer... I don't know. But it is clear that they are the same set of skills that help me in both cases. And I thank God that He has given me these talents to serve Him through this dig.
Once again, we made a lot of progress today. We found some walls and a dorway along with a couple of really fascinating metal pieces. Hopefully within the next week or so we'll find the floor and be able to expand even more. The quality of pottery we've been finding is pretty fantastic. We really haev agreat square to work with, and I'm excited to see what we can do with it in the weeks ahead.
We're not entirely sure what this is. However, we do know that it has some iron in it from the rust that we can see. It's a long metal spike of some sort. It's not a nail- the head's too small, and it's too thin. It may be some sort of a tool, or possibly a door hinge. But we'll have to clean it up to see what it turns out to be.
We did a lot of more digging, and got down to the better stones along the main wall we were working on. We dug along the wall to see how long it is, and how far it goes. However, we didn't get very far before we found the end of it. This was quite unexpected as we were expecting it to go well past our square. But we kept digging, trying to keep the square at least somewhat level. It was then that we found that the wall keeps going! It turns out that what we thought was the end of the wall is actually the side of a doorway (or at least that's what it appears to be right now.) We don't have much of the wall cleared at that level, so we'll see what tomorrow brings.
So, over the past couple of days, I've been making some pretty cool finds. With the pendant yesterday (which I'll update you later on, but is really exciting!) and the metal spike today, it leads me to wonder how I can find these things. It is actually a familiar problem for me. Those of you who know of my petosky hunting skills are quite aware of the situation. For those of you who don't know, the petosky stone is the state stone of Michigan, and is, because of it's limited geographical location, more rare than diamonds. Anyway, I find these almost every time I go out in Lake Michigan (or even just the beach for that matter.) And people always ask me how I find them. And in both cases, here's the answer... I don't know. But it is clear that they are the same set of skills that help me in both cases. And I thank God that He has given me these talents to serve Him through this dig.
Once again, we made a lot of progress today. We found some walls and a dorway along with a couple of really fascinating metal pieces. Hopefully within the next week or so we'll find the floor and be able to expand even more. The quality of pottery we've been finding is pretty fantastic. We really haev agreat square to work with, and I'm excited to see what we can do with it in the weeks ahead.
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