Aug 1, 2012

Addition...

In the finds hut as I orgnized items, I was encouraged to take out and view any that I wanted to, as long as I made sure they went back in the propper bag. Today our excavation blog (orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar) mentions two halves of a smll stone chisel and a small flint ax head. I got to work with both of these finds, (technically all three because the two sides of the stone chisel are clssified as different small finds) as well as several pieces of groove-wear pottery, (pottery with intentional grooves put into the surface for decoration and design,) and a small ball of fired clay that may have been a game piece or a something else unknown to us. I also worked with more pieces of flint chips, a flint scraping tool, several worked stones, and a plethora of less unique items like crumbling or undecorated pottery, daub, and cramp.
Yesterday I didn't mention that the guy I was digging next to uncovered a really neat large stone, about the size of a bread box, that had a concave scoop carefully chipped into the middle of it. It was very neat to see. Since the entire rock it isn't fully exposed yet, it is not tagged as a small finds yet. I hope that when they do give it a small finds number that they put a picture of it up on the website.
One more thing--there is a picture on the excavation blog that was taken today and shows me in the background surveying with my GPS. The picture is next to the "View from the Trenches" and I'm the one standing up in the back, dressed all in green, holding up a pole with a dish on the top.

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