How much longer til college football season?

How many more days until college football (SEC football, in particular) kicks off....too many for my taste. the Tennessee Volunteers, as well as most other SEC schools, are in the midst of spring drills and the vols expect to rebound from last season's dismal effort. I 'm glad to see Coach Cut(cliffe) back on the sidelines and am even happier to see Coaches Sanders (QB/Off Coord) and Washinton (receivers) gone out the door. Now maybe the football program can ascend back to the top of Rocky Top, where we have enjoyed so many successfull seasons. Too bad I live in an area where the weekly JP Sports broadcast is an ACC game...thank the good Lord for Satellite TV

I recently was interviewed by a local newspaper, the Culpeper Star Exponent, about the results of a previous archaeological excavation that I supervised in Culpeper, Virginia. I'll quickly provide the results of this project here.

My crew excavated 34 unmarked historic burials (in 32 grave shafts) from the Williams-Green cemetery in Culpeper Virginia. the property is scheduled to be developed into a shopping complex, and the developer has paid for the archaeological excavation and reburial of the human remains and grave furniture.
The state of preservation of the skeletal remains was poor at best, owing to a high acid content in the soil (pH 4.6-6). However remains and data were recovered that allowed some observations and generalizations about the burial population at this cemetery. The burials for the most part, date to 1800-1850 based upon the lack of mass produced ornamental coffin hardware and temporally sensitive artifacts from the graves. there was a high incidence of dental caries in these individuals. this indicates a reliance on processed starches (flour) and sugars in their diets. Most burials were interred in hexagonal coffins with one burial being interred in a double rectangular coffin (coffin in an outer box). One coffin was adorned with silver plated handles and zinc alloy stylized thumb screws, and a glass view port. This grave was probably one of the latest to be interred in the cemetery (ca. 1860-1870). the poor preservation did not allow the determination of sex or age of most of the burials, however adults were the majority of individuals encountered. Subadult (children's) graves were clustered in the southeast corner of the cemetery with a grave yielding the remains of an older child and an very small child. these may have been siblings that succumbed to disease (cholera, yellow fever). One of these children had shovel shaped incisors which indicates that he/she is of asiatic heritage (probably American Indian). Two burials had gold fillings which was unexpected to say the least. It is interesting to see that at least 2 people during the early to mid 19th century had access to professional dental care, while having the personal wealth to afford gold fillings.
the property containing the cemetery has been traced back to a land transaction in 1751 from John Spottswood, the son of former Gov. Alexander Spottswood. At this time the property was transferred to William Williams, and stayed with various members of the Williams clan until the 1840's. It was during the later half of this period that most of the burials were made in the cemetery. Another interesting feature of the cemetery was the discovery of a brick foundation that enclosed the cemetery on all side. This foundation was for a brick wall that orignially enclosed the graveyard to bound it from the surrounding fields. It is likely that the brick wall stood for several decades until the Union army occupation of Culpeper during the winter of 1863-1864, at that time the wall was dismantled completely by the soldiers to supply materials to build their camp huts. Some gravestones may have also been robbed from the site for this purpose as well.