Shown as though it were the last Unit to be cleared (it wasn’t), this Unit is placed about as the Site grid of 5x5 ft. squares would have laid it out near the N end of the footer wall.  (It was very difficult onsite – or afterwards – to obtain information from the Directors – or even civil answers and acknowledgments, for that matter! - on Unit designations, datum points and the like – though such information on a public site would normally be held to be accessible and “shareable” with colleagues!). 

   This is the Unit I was excavating in February 1999, when I exposed the remnant of a large marine turtle carapace, dorsally situated but somewhat up on one side.  See model.  The find, over the immediate indifference of the Site Director,  I saved by knocking together an impromptu wood  jacket in the field and removing the carapace en bloc, packed in wet mud and newspapers in lieu of plaster and proper field materials (in this I had the help of one or two equally disinterested fellow diggers).  I have detailed all this elsewhere. 

    The director was then quoted the following day in the local paper to effect the turtle find proved a “sacred temple” once stood here, it was oriented exactly to E (it wasn’t) and other inaccuracies and speculations.  As shown here, the Unit is being step-excavated and the level lines are in place – there is even a tiny sliding line level visible on one line, along with the tools of the archeologist: whiskbroom, dustpan and trowel.