Duncan - Day 7

20/08/09

Today I worked with Garry looking at research, drawings and samples from the Bouldnor Cliff site. This was great chance to get to grips with the operation going on there. Later I was able to work with Garry on the contents of a monolith. A monolith is a tool used to remove a section of earth from below the water and enable archaeologists to work upon it later on in a lab, think of it as creating a miniature dig site. I drew the square of soil and laid out a grid. We then began excavating the first part. Here we found what seemed to be a hazelnut amongst charcoal. Possibly signs of them being roasted at this site. To find organic material I was told is quite rare, making this quite a lucky find. Unfortunately we ran out of time to excavate the rest of the sample.