Gallery of Archeological Society of Maryland’s Biggs Ford Field Session June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 GladeValley.net Staff Sifting Box Carefully searching. Taking a break. Removing layers of dirt to be sifted. Outlining a post of the later village’s palisade. Sifting box Pit from original village dating as early as 1000 A.D. Quartz tool fragment Tools of the trade. Archaeologists making a discovery. Examining a find! All of the dirt is carefully sifted and its origin documented. Dig sites in corn field along Biggs Ford Road Archaeologists seeking the remains of a domicile. Explaining the distinguishing markings of pottery used in Glade Valley. Archaeology Sifting for artifacts. Sifting Boxes on Stands A piece of pottery. A cutting tool used by Glade Valley residents 1000 years ago. These pits have yielded charcoal, animal bones, corn kernels, and more.