we spent the morning throwing passes with the pickaxe and dropping the trench as far as possible. we were aiming to find sterile soil and have a pick pass which turned up no terracotta but our blue trench was just not a barren whore like the others and kept turning up large pieces of terracotta with every pass. we weren't finding as much as before and no firieze plaques, but it is still pretty strange that we have dug so deep and are still digging in clay.
Freddy is an awesome trench master, he doesn't talk a lot but he is super sweet. he spends most of his time laughing silently at our antics while he works on his trench book. the people in the trench this week are very excited to work and we fight over who gets to do the next pick pass. I think we let freddy have one today. and when we got James in our trench after his closed we begrudged sharing the pickaxe. Not only is he fun, he also gives us a break in the middle of the day and give us goldfish crackers.
Tony came by late in the day and told us that the blue color would be a result of the decay of organic matter. either human or animal waste or vegetable matter (I'm hoping vegetable matter since I don't want to have spent the last three days digging in poop). eww.
Since the main goal has been depth lately, neatness has sort of gone out the window. so the walls of the trench were very messy we spent the last hour and a half of the day with hand picks and trowels making sure the walls were all flat and at perfect right angles. My hand is super sore but the walls I worked on looks beautiful.
Tomrorow will consist of more cleaning up, taking closing photos and preparing to backfill the trenches. The very last day on the hill :C. Then there is a big dinner and celebration for everyone. I'm super sad about leaving, I've had such a good summer.
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