Today we continued the excavation in T34, took some final elevations for T32 and have begun to backfill in T32. In T34 these is still not too much to report except architecture which is appearing in the N part of the trench, and also seemingly as walls along the W and E edges of the trench. This is good because it means it limits the amount of area that can be excavated in the trench. Nevertheless, as far as finds go, we don't have anything particularly amazing-- a few bags worth of ceramics, a bag of bone, and a bag of lithics. I do think the soil is changing, so we'll finish this pass tomorrow and begin a new locus excavating across the trench. I also want to focus on cleaning the architecture and the walls tomorrow so that we can take photographs on Saturday, Sunday or Monday (depending on progress).
The backfilling of T32 is going well. We've used a plastic tarp to cover as much of the clay basin and clay platform as possible, and are using the sod from the topsoil removal of T32, T33 and T34 as backfilling material since it should preserve the architecture/archaeology better than rocks or simple soil. We should be able to finish backfilling in the next few days.
Lastly, Adam and I finished up the GPR survey today. We have surveyed 2/5's of a hectare (Units 5A, B, C, D, E and 4 A, B, C, D, E) on the mag grid. I've sent the raw data off to Danny Bradac at Ithaca College to being preliminary data processing so that we might be able to bring a print out to site early next week and compare the ground surface to the GPR signals.