The atypical perfect weather continues. I find this disturbing. Can't say I've ever seen a forecast here with 0% possibility of precipitation.
I've continued to sort out the details of the barracks room I've been in since the start of the week. It has been bashed about quite a bit since between being built in the 3rd Century and being beaten up by plows in the 19th. I'll skip the technical details and just show some.....things
Low grade artifacts:
Pot Lids, just bits of flat stone or broken pot that are shaped into round to cover some sort of vessels. Pottery? Wooden bowls? Who knows. The supervising archaeologist hates 'em and lets her Mediterranean passions fly when I bring her one. I try to look apologetic..
Foolishly I went and found a second.
Pseudo artifacts: People sometimes ask why we don't use metal detectors on site. The roughly one million nails in the ground are one reason. Another is iron stone. Sort of a low grade iron ore that forms nodules. By surface appearance and weight these appear to be iron artifacts. This one at least had a soft "core" that gave away the game.
Small, very small artifacts. Too tiny to even get a picture of it but with two minutes to go in the digging day I spotted a tiny bit of blue glass. It was a broken bead. I was rather pleased that my 68 year old eyes picked it up.
Not everything on site is that difficult.
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