While some folks are working on buildings and features that had been identified in previous seasons at Seyla, a few of us have been chasing out new turf walls.  For three days we’ve been following a long (15 meters) turf wall, either of a longhouse or some sort of enclosure.  We are just now starting to clarify what is happening at one end , but it’s still puzzling.  Meanwhile, at the end of the day today we uncovered more (possibly unrelated) bits of wall in the area we’ve been clearing, running in different directions.  All the walls and the fallen turf around them are covered by the bright white tephra of an 1104 eruption.  More updates if and when we figure out what these walls are doing.

Also at Seyla, Kate and Mike have been excavating a large fire-related pit that has produced a few interesting artifacts, a lot of bone, and some slag.

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