Glunk Site

May 7th,2014
         Today I finished digging in the NE quad to level it with the north and south west quads. All 3 quads are now sitting at an even 27 inches. While digging the NE quad I uncovered much more charcoal, and that greasy brown/black staining. I also continued to find historic artifacts like glass and nails. There must have been a trash or barrow pit where the people here burned their trash. Sam and I mapped out the stain and charcoal patterns. There was also another stain that was a rust color about 28 inches down and 3 inches deep. It was a rather interesting feature. Later, after lunch Sam dug in the SE quad to even out the level from the feature we bisected yesterday. Nothing of interest was uncovered while evening out the SE quad. Sam then continued to do a wall clean up in the SE quad. We only cleaned up the Southern wall because we are getting ready to break down the walls, or balks between each pit.

Glunk Site

May 6th,2014
         Today we continued excavating our feature in EU 18. The soil is filled with charcoal and a greasy brown looking soil. Robin wanted to see how far down the stain went so we bisected the feature in the SE quad and continued digging on its west side. This was so we could see the profile of it, While digging half of the feature we continued to find historic artifacts, but we also found what appears to be half of a stone pendent. We marked it as a special find. While digging we also took Munsell soil samples of the different colors of soil we were seeing. A sketch of the stain was also done on graph paper.

Muncy Historical Society

May 5th,2014
        Feliz Cinco de Mayo! Today we traveled to Muncy to visit their historical society. It is in a very old home, and there are lots of very cool artifacts inside. I found the working loom and square piano the most interesting. Once we received the tour of the house museum we ventured down to the Muncy Heritage park and Nature trail, which is a project of the historical society. The park was very nice with a trail that wrapped around Fischer's pond. We learned a lot about canals and the lock system. There was a very fascinating story about the last raft. When a group of older men in 1938 decided to build a logging raft like they used to in their youth and sail down to Harrisburg one last time it didn't exactly go as planned. They made it to Harrisburg just fine, but on their way back up the Susquehanna it crashed into a pier on the bridge in Muncy and 7 people died. That was the end of an era, or time when rafts were used to carry logs to other cities. We then ate lunch at the Indian Park in Montoursville, and then got ice cream at Eder's. I got mint chocolate chip, which was very good. We then, went on a little adventure up through the mountains on a Willards rum rd. Overall, it was a very interesting and educational day. Oh, and we also found some chert and hammer stones to use as flint napping tools later on in our field school.

Glunk Site

May 2nd,2014
           Today it is a bit chilly outside and we are down 2 members of the crew. Sam and I finished our wall clean up, and we must continue onto a level 2/3 transitional phase cautiously because of charcoal evidence found on the floor of our pit, which we found mostly in the SE quad. We have past the arbitrary level 1, and are now continuing on now by natural soil level changes. The top level is dark brown and it continues to a lighter yellow layer. We had many features in our pit so far and we have mapped out our EU at level 1. We have a large historic cluster of brick and limestone in the wall of the south west quad as well as other historical features we included in the map.

Glunk Site

May 1st,2014
        Today we got a late start because on an early afternoon thunderstorm. Also, we started at around 2 because Robin wanted us to meet some of the members of NCC8. We continued on digging with the members, and we met Andy, who has a formal degree in archaeology. Also Matt was introduced to us, and he took the same class as we are with Robin. It was a very productive day as Sam and I hit a new level in the soil, marked by a lighter yellow colored soil. While digging at level 1 I found a large limestone block (8x6x2.5 in). The large limestone brick was 14 inches deep, but it was to only one we found in level 1. We also uncovered a small brick protruding from the North west wall at the depth of 9 in.

Another rainy day...with museums!

April 30th,2014
                Today was also rainy weather so we ventured out in the rain and visited the Little League Baseball Museum and the Taber Museum. The Little League Baseball museum is newly renovated and is very nice. The exhibits were modern and interactive. I thought the museum tour was very nice and I can see many little leaguers have lots of fun in this museum while learning a lot about their favorite sport.
                We stopped at Robin's house to eat lunch and pass time before our next tour at the Taber museum. After we finished our lunch we drove the the Taber Museum and began our tour. Robin lead us around the Indian exhibits as we looked at and talked about the artifacts on display that we could possibly find at the Glunk site. We also looked at the other exhibits downstairs as well as the archaeology lab. The lab in in the basement and is for North Central Chapter 8 to use with their artifacts. While in the lab we got to look at artifacts found at sites around Glunk like the Snyder and Ault sites. I learned a lot today during the rainy weather.

Rainy Day

April 29th,2014
                Today was a rainy day and so we were inside cleaning artifacts. We set up shop in the lounge area between the theater and Pennington Lounge. While we cleaned the artifacts from yesterday we watched a documentary called "Debunking Ancient Aliens". It was a very interesting and productive day.

http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/