Enterprise Landing, SC

   This is the page for Enterprise Landing and the Phase I and II done there. The following photos show a one meter by two meter unit being dug in ten centimeter levels. Level 3 is missing from the lineup =\. Each level was dug, screened, and recorded. You can see the stratigraphy of the soils change in many of the photos. The first level is mostly root matte and humus. The color differences have to do with the organic materials and different materials like iron.
   The tripod pictured is composed of three small trees, tied together with rope and opened to balance the middle. A screen is hung from the middle so it can be shaken and the tripod can be moved, lowered or positioned to make screening more efficient and convenient.
   Level One and Two
   Level Four was excavated at the end of the day. The first photograph shows the level at the end of the day, and the second photograph is from the next day, covered in leaves and objects that fell in overnight.
   The last full level of the unit (on left). Since the surface at that level was on a slope, and the subsoil being exposed was a compressed silty clay, we decided to finish this level and then continue on only one side of the unit. Level Six can be seen on the right.
   A unit with a feature in the corner. The feature was part of a fifty-by-fifty test which produced a massive amount of pottery sherds and some oddly shaped baked clay.
   A stone which was protruding from the wall of the unit. We found two of these in another unit and one on the surface at another part of the site.
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