Continue preparing for project closedown, building covering for the trenches, and cleaning up and profiling units on the north and south sides of the mound. The top trench was covered and sealed today, profiling and photography was completed in the south step trench, and profiling continued in the north trench.

Project co-director John Cornelison points to the covered and sealed trench atop Mound A. The trench is covered in three layers of plastic sheeting, a plywood cover reinforced by 2x4s, and protected with triple layers of sandbags.

SEAC crew member Steven Kidd profiling in the top of the north step trench. Both walls and the steps of each trench unit are being profiled and photographed prior to project close down. The trench wall Steve is profiling is illustrated immediately below.

N62E181 east wall profile photograph, in the northern step trench.

SEAC archaeologist Jay Sturdevant preparing a permanent datum marker set in concrete at transit station 1 near the south step trench. Datums are being placed in a number of locations on the site, to ensure accurate relocation of units.

Close up of east wall of N35E180 in the south step trench, showing probable washing episodes above and below the red bands. A mottled gray clay cap is shown in the upper part of the image.. Numerous close up photographs of unusual stratigraphic features have been taken during the project.

SEAC archaeologist Charles Lawson takes a photograph of N69&70E181 in the northern part of the north step trench. The shot he took is immediately below.

Mottled clay cap exhibiting burned upper surface in N69&70E181 in the northern part of the north step trench. The depression in the center of the image is where a sample was taken by Dr. Sarah Sherwood, the project geoarchaeologist from Middle Tennessee State University.

Project director John Cornelison and SEAC crew member Robert Hellman nailing reinforcing two by fours to join individual plywood sheets covering the trench atop Mound A.

Construction of the covering over the trench atop Mound A. Robert Hellman, Charles Lawson, and John Cornelison work on the covering while SEAC archaeologists Tammy Cooper and Jay Sturdevant map with the laser transit in the background.