Week 13: November 11th and 13th
Good morning everybody! This week, I got the chance to participate in some light archaeology and conservation at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum, as we spent Monday and Wednesday collecting, cleaning, and organizing glass bottles that we found on the Pacetti Hotel property. On Monday, myself and Holly spent the morning collecting over 60 glass bottles, jugs, and jars of all shapes, sizes, and colors. For whatever reason, the small bits of wooded area that surround the Pacetti Hotel were filled with a number of unbroken bottles, jugs, and jars all dating from anywhere between the late 1800s up to the modern period, so Felipe had us scouring these areas in order to both, collect more bottles and help clean up the property for visitors. The process consisted of carefully inspecting various sections of the woods and then collecting whatever bottles or glassware we could with either our hands or a special grabbing tool. Then we collected each item and stored them in some plasti