Buffington Island Battlefield Archaeological Project


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Updates from the field, June 12, 1999

	Larry Hamilton and Jamie Abel, Heidelberg's Director of College Relations, recovered a spent musket ball early Saturday morning.
	A volunteer metal detector operator working with Melissa Spencer recovered spent buckshot from a nearby field.
	One of Saturday's interesting Field Specimens was this fragment of the lead sabot part of an artillery shell.
	A portion of the crew surveys an alfalfa field east of State Route 124 near the middle of the Buffington Island Battlefield area.
	West of the highway the crew works in a mowed hay field beneath the bluffs which border the terraces on which the battle was fought.
	Throughout the survey, local battlefield expert Gayle Price provided Dr. Pratt with information about the history of the Portland area and the battle of Buffington Island.
	Field recovery activities ceased on Saturday afternoon. This final crew photo includes the regular crew, volunteers and local resident Mr. Don Johnson who provided invaluable assistance throughout this project. A special thanks, Don, from all of us.
	A field project is not finished until the paperwork is completed. The crew spent their final night in Ripley, W.Va., completing the artifact inventory and volunteer logs, packing artifacts for the trip to Heidelberg, and breaking down the field lab. Evening operations continued until 10 P.M. Sunday's activities will involve GPS mapping of the remaining field specimens, packing the trucks, and making the five hour drive back to Tiffin, Ohio.