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Updates from the field, June 4, 1999

	Friday Morning took the crew into cornfields in the southern part of the project area. Dr. Mike Pratt and Michelle Pratt pull the artifact/paperwork cart behind the detector/recovery crew.
	Later in the day the survey moved to an isolated parcel of land surrounded by the proposed gravel mining area and investigated a cornfield, hay field and garden area, all of which produced battlefield artifacts.
	Detector operator Tom Garvin and a volunteer excavator recover one of several spent musket balls from the hay field.
	Detector operator Dave Boyd and Heidelberg student Kelly Hockersmith pinpoint and begin the artifact recovery process.
	Michelle Pratt records detailed information on each Field Specimen. The date, property owner, preliminary identification, artifact depth, type of survey, axis of sweep, metal detector model and the names of the operator and excavator are recorded on this form.
	Nine brass buttons were recovered on Friday. The center button is a backname Andrew Jackson Presidential Campaign Button.

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