I spent the day at C3 yesterday. All back to "normal", signs down, porta potties gone, no traffic jams, Spyder the dog hoping for more scraps.

The "deep hole" site never produced the early archaic finds that original testing had indicated. It seems that when gouging out the trench the bucket
literally skipped when it hit the hardest low layer. Right from 10 minutes after starting the morning dig it was recognized that it was not deep enough even though Ensor Vintage points were being found.
Richard said he will look it over again and see if the backhoe can actually cope with the hardness...
Where there is a will ( points ) there is a way ..A max test effort might be done by some hearty souls with a rented electric jack hammer.. and / or that patch of land right next to big hole fills with rain runoff in the proper 3 day Texas deluge,,,then we can dig with a butter knife.

Next look, Fulton Hollow. The trench was a very po****r dig area and many people raked the piles of removed dirt ( on the L of this pic )



I've been through this "raking" business many times on other digs and the results are ALWAYS the same, no matter how experienced or strong the raker
may be...It is IMPOSSIBLE to rake out a mound of dirt that is 3 feet deep.
Since we know for sure that there are good artifacts in there, I went after the problem differently......NO RAKING.

I just considered it a full scale dig. Move the dirt and most importantly...get the dirt back out of the way.

"trench" #1 insitu





Overall view. Trench on R, dirt dragged far back ( L in pic )



Trench #2 insitu







A very respectable Marshall



Finds from trench #1 on L...#2 R



Hope this overly long report helps those interested in another shot.

A very respectable Marshall indeed! Great report Hal!

Nice finds , Hal

When in the trench and thinking of the big floods that will eventually be rolling thru, I am thinking the trench will become alot wider and maybe deeper in some spots.

The gravel bars down the way may be the surface hunters dream!

My hope is that a major rain holds off until all of that piled dirt can be hand dug through, shy of digging in a proper camp, thats about the richest soils one could expect.

IF there IS a major rain event there in the near future I plan to make the drive just to see the spectacle...Real TX floods are impressive ( we know that the ancients had great respect for them too)
We can see that the present low water channel is against the hillside. The new trench will redirect the deluge closer to the middle and also for a time devote energy to digging deeper...was that hollow all clean rock walls before 10,000 years of litter filled it in ?

My hope is that a major rain holds off until all of that piled dirt can be hand dug through, shy of digging in a proper camp, thats about the richest soils one could expect.

IF there IS a major rain event there in the near future I plan to make the drive just to see the spectacle...Real TX floods are impressive ( we know that the ancients had great respect for them too)
We can see that the present low water channel is against the hillside. The new trench will redirect the deluge closer to the middle and also for a time devote energy to digging deeper...was that hollow all clean rock walls before 10,000 years of litter filled it in ?

kinda had the same ideal we hit the trench dirt

sifted a few loads and got these

then went to Bills camp and got this one
not to bad for a 1/2 day 10-13-12