Photo 1: My hole. With a little initial help from Jim, I emptied and cleaned this waist deep hole. You can all stop applauding now. I know it's incredible and terribly interesting...
Work at my sight has involved clearing rubble and looking for pottery so we can date the construction under the stone pavement we removed. Unfortunately we have found very little at this point and nothing to definitively date the construction.
Photo 2: Jason's pot. He cleaned about 4 inches of dirt from a different square in the courtyard and got to unearth this 7th century BCE cooking pot. Some people get all the work.
Photo 3: Me with two of my team members, Charlotte and Anne, students from Heidelberg University in Germany.
Tuesday after work a bus load of us went to the City of David (not to be confused with the Temple Mount or with the "Old City".) This section of Jerusalem has the oldest stone structures excavated in Jerusalem - dating back to the middle bronze age (1800 BCE). Photos will have to wait since I forgot the camera.
So, it looks to me like YOU've done a great - and patient - job. Much worse than me having to re-caulk my bathtub (which I've been putting off). But if you feel ambitious ... go for it! You just have to get to CA first!
ReplyDeleteSo, are you there yet? (Are we there yet? !!!)
Love ya,
Linda
160 buckets * 25 lb/bucket = 4,000 lbs! OUCH!
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No wonder my back aches!
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