Beautiful day at Louisbourg, the weather has been phenomenal. Nice breeze out on Rochefort Point. The digging was interesting. It always gets most interesting as the day is winding down and you have to go home. Unanswered questions are left for tomorrow. I get to think over things this evening. So many aspects of archaeology going on at the same time. We have Experimental, Terrestrial, Historical, and Underwater. I love the questions the public ask as they tour by our site. Especially kids, they always have the best questions. Getting them to hold something that you just dug up from the ground that's 300 years old, it really leaves a mark on their experience at Louisbourg.
Today's digging got me thinking about the way we perceive death and the way death was perceived 300 years ago. I found a human burial, my first. Although it is a common thing in the area where we are exploring. It makes you think about how they died, how they were buried and who mourned that poor soul. There was more death in those times, but I imagine there being just as much grief, but maybe not as much fear.
Here are a few shots, the underwater team was busy looking for Lime Kilns that are present on old drawings of the time, but no one has found them. Coastal erosion has them now underwater.
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