A very brief report today, as much of our work was "transitional" (after the morning rain)... Much of the work today was focused on expanding our metal detector survey grid...
The map below shows the approximate areas we have finished in yellow (over 23,000 square feet) and the areas we hope to finish on Thursday in blue.
The image below shows a "density map" of the areas surveyed to date... Each of the existing four reconstructed slave cabins (black outlined squares) show up on the density map -- but the highest density of the area surveyed to date centers around where we believe the cluster of 1860s slave cabins once existed (our current archaeological cabin in white with a black outline). As we expand the grid over the next few days, we hope this will provide additional information on the location of the other vanished cabins...
The image below is another projection of the metal detector data -- this orthographic projection shows a "3-D" representation of the metal density. The area outlined in the black oval is the "Cabin 1" area.
Tiffany, Ryan, and Meagan continued investigations of the yard fence -- with assistance from volunteers Georgia Dennis and Judy Shook. They discovered another new possible posthole (outlined in yellow below)...
This looks much more promising for the early yard fence -- our first two postholes were small and several feet out from the overseer's office (outlined in yellow). This possible posthole is much larger and directly adjacent to the overseer's office (filled yellow oval below).
More news on Thursday...