Another Day in the Field

Spent the day helping to excavate a nineteenth-century farm site in Delaware. The site belonged to a free black preacher from the 1840s on, one of the founders of what was for a while a thriving little black community.

The field was full of these charming mushrooms, sprouted, I suppose, because of the dousing the state got from Irene.

Found this interesting button.

But a more typical haul from one of our plowzone test units looks like this.