In the third week of field school, students completed three 5x5 units to the subsoil. Those who worked in these units went to the units southeast of the main Site B French drain and commenced excavating new units. In the southeast part of Site B, excavators uncovered nails and ceramics. Three units in the northwest corner of Site B were trowelled to the subsoil and three new 5x5 units were opened near them. We were able to observe dark gray features in our units. We learned how to properly map our units and photograph them for documentation.

This week in the lab, we learned how to carefully clean artifacts and label them using archival-safe materials. Lectures were given on slave life and other aspects of African American culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

On Thursday June 21^st we began our two-day educational trip to the Tidewater region of Virginia. We visited the Werowocomoco, Rosewell, and Fairfield archaeology sites. At Werowocomoco, a Native American village, where chief Wahunsonacock (Powhatan) lived, we viewed excavated ditches that were used by the people of the village for hundreds of years.

At Rosewell Ruins, an eighteenth-century mansion, we learned of its great fire and archaeological methods that are being used to further explore its history. At nearby Fairfield we were given a tour of the site in order to learn about previous excavations and to learn more about another eighteenth-century mansion that also burned.

On Friday, June 22^nd, we went to Historic Jamestowne that is celebrating its 400^th year anniversary. We observed recent excavations, the archaeology field school, and the new Archaearium. We observed many amazing artifacts that have recently been brought to light. The trips to various archaeology sites, similar to our own at Poplar Forest, helped us better understand features, artifacts, and the methods of archaeology in other sites.