 Well what we're doing today is we're collecting a lot of different objects that are on the surface of the excavation. They divide it up as you can see into squares. Each student goes into a square and picks up any objects that he might see glass or metal or pottery. We put in a brown paper bag and they collect all the paper bags and they have like a grid and everything's like mapped out on this grid how much is found where and how dense it is. That kind of shows them where things you know might have once been. I haven't had a chance to do any of the background research that I typically would do before I come out onto a site but I would guess at this point that we've got some kind of a main house or structure just over my shoulder here and then some ancillary buildings that wouldn't be uncommon in any kind of a plantation or even a small-scale farmstead. Well today I found a lot of iron in this square. It appears that this area was where they made you know iron tools and things like that and over there I found things like ceramics and iron pieces and stuff like that. I found these two nails but they looked like they could be modern and this is rock that's very really old and the pottery seems to be more up-to-date with what we're looking at. All of the artifacts that the students help us collect out here are going to be taken back to one of our labs and processed, cleaned and then analyzed and catalogued. At that point we'll generate data tables that'll get sent back to me so I can produce my compliance report. At the end are going to be put into storage containers and brought back to North Carolina where they'll be stored at the repository in Raleigh. It's been really interesting. I found a lot of interesting stuff and it's pretty neat to imagine what it was like a couple hundred years ago. Oh it's great for students to come out and enjoy the site or get to see archaeology. One of my first experiences with archaeology was as a student actually in elementary school so I think it's great for them to get to come out. It's been really fun and interesting because I never knew what an archaeologist did. It's a really awesome experience just getting to help the professionals uncover evidence of this area's past and the ancient peoples that used to live here.