Deborah L. Rotman, Ph.D., RPA
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Purdue University
700 W. State Street; 316 Stone Hall
West Lafayette IN  47907-2059
Phone (765) 494-4683
Fax (765) 496-1476
 

Dear HistArchers ~
        I appreciate all of the terrific information.  It is wonderful
to have a community of colleagues on whom I can rely for sound advice!
        Additional conversation with the client has revealed that the
well is only about 3 feet in diameter.  So unless we can find a
volunteer willing to be suited up and lowered into the feature by their
ankles, we will need to find another way to sample the deposits in the
well (estimated to be about 30-35 feet deep).
        Any ideas on how we might recover objects remotely?  How does
one manage things like provenience control under such circumstances?

Cheers,
Deborah Rotman