Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Get 'em young Digging deep

It's not exactly the stuff of an Indiana Jones movie, but an archaeological dig here is capturing intrigue.

Sixth- and seventh-graders from the University of Wyoming Lab School, a public middle school in the Albany County School District, are excavating what they believe to be an old kitchen at the Wyoming Territorial Prison.

On Thursday, students hauled out their trowels, buckets and clipboards to gently scrape layers of dirt from what might have been foundation walls of the defunct building, professionally documenting their discoveries as they went.