April 6th, 2014
We were asked to dig at the site of the first church ediface of "Albright's people". These people eventually form the United Methodist Church, and this site is the first of these churches in the New World. The Evangelical church was first built in 1816 and then again in 1873. Our job is to find the footer of the old church and map it out for a landscaping project they are working on for the site. We simply started digging test pits along the front of the property in line with all the other homes. Robin noticed that all the houses were in line with each other, and so we lined our test pits up with the front of the homes next door. I screened dirt for shovel test pit 1, and we found things like glass, brick, ceramics (white), limestone mortar, and lots of rocks. We did find large stones which we believe to be a part of the footer. Our tests pits were all 1ft x 1ft. I also dug shovel test pit 3 where I found ceramics (red), limestone, footer stones, nails, coal, and brick.
We were asked to dig at the site of the first church ediface of "Albright's people". These people eventually form the United Methodist Church, and this site is the first of these churches in the New World. The Evangelical church was first built in 1816 and then again in 1873. Our job is to find the footer of the old church and map it out for a landscaping project they are working on for the site. We simply started digging test pits along the front of the property in line with all the other homes. Robin noticed that all the houses were in line with each other, and so we lined our test pits up with the front of the homes next door. I screened dirt for shovel test pit 1, and we found things like glass, brick, ceramics (white), limestone mortar, and lots of rocks. We did find large stones which we believe to be a part of the footer. Our tests pits were all 1ft x 1ft. I also dug shovel test pit 3 where I found ceramics (red), limestone, footer stones, nails, coal, and brick.
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| Shovel Test Pit 3 map |
