Returning to the Mystery Feature
Hello everyone, As you may know, our goal in excavation this summer is to learn more about the boundary of Fort St. Joseph. We’ve found structures, houses, fireplaces and plenty of artifacts as signs of life throughout our excavated areas on the Fort, but we still have not established the exact borders. Much to my excitement, the Dream Team (my incredible group of three) was assigned to work on the furthest west unit on site, which is directly next to the previously discovered mystery feature–feature 31. Currently, we’re excavating unit S8 W20 in hopes of understanding more about the feature itself and what it means for the Fort boundaries. When we first started excavating S8W20 this season, we weren’t sure if there would be anything in our unit. It lands right between one excavated unit with a mysterious feature and another excavated unit that was almost void of artifacts. Thankfully, we found cultural remains in the plow zone as we went down. We uncovered artifacts including bon...
