What a Post Hole Looks Like

In Delaware today, where we spent much of the morning cleaning up the site after a weekend of rain. We also uncovered more features, including this blindingly clear post hole. The white ring is the hole, which was dug to set the post in and then filled back in. It is very light gray because the hole was dug down through a layer of  very pale clay, which is under that yellowish brown subsoil. The dark circle in the center is the post mold, the actual stain left by the decayed post. As you can tell, this was a very big post, part of the framing for a post house or barn.