These excavations were part of a field school for instructing interested students in archaeological method and theory. Maps and notes are recorded in the field. Excavation unit at the Burnside School site. Artifact analysis continued after the end of the field school. Preliminary ethnobotanical analysis of the plant remains from the Burnside School site indicates that the inhabitants were growing corn, beans, squash, and tobacco.
Additional plant remains include sunflower, marsh elder, and wild plum.
Artifacts excavated at the Burnside School site suggest the area was a small outlying village, possibly relating to the much larger Bryan site to the north. Archaeologists believe that the Burnside School site was occupied around 1300 CE, slightly later than the main occupations of the larger villages in the Red Wing Locality. Oneota pottery sherd from the Burnside Site.