Two days of excavating.

The three first days of the week where spent on fixing the totalstaion, so we only got two days of excavating this week. Although we only excavated two days, we still got a lot done because the crew really worked hard.

During the days that we did not excavate we had visitors on site. Some persons with an healthy interest in archaeology had been on site. They had probably found some loose flints on site or on the way to the site and left them in a nice little pile on a board for us to find. I know these persons did this with good intentions, but it´s not something we recommend. Because it could completely mess up our site if these finds are brougth from another context into our context. Things such as dating and other interpretations could go horribly wrong. And since we get the finds out of context they loose a lot of the scientific value. We appreciate the thought and the shown interest.

On thursday we finished the square meter that Egis started. It had some complicated stratigraphy and some nice finds.

Arne and I defining the stratigraphy in Egis square.

Paul did the drawing.

This is the result. It´s al the four sides of the square drawn in one long sequence.

I´m sorry Egis, afterwards we had to backfill the square. I know you loved that hole, but this is whats left of her.

Some reporters from the newspaper Skånska Dagbladet came to make a story on the ornated bonepoint that Anna found. It must be the find of the season. I made a quick sketch from memory, of the bonepoint to give you a view of the ornamentation.

The bonpoint was found without any microblades but i drew some on the left side, just to give an idea of what it migth have looked like. The microblades are small super sharp little pieces of flint hefted to the sides with resin, to give a cuting edge. As you can see the ornamentation consists of hexagons. The hexagons have probably been worn out in the tipp, only leaving vertical lines.

This is a microblade found on site. The black stuff on the side is resin, wich suggests that this microblade has been hefted to something like a bonepoint.

Not all finds are sensational, but they can still be just amazing, such as this mesolithic torch.

We think that these torches are closely connected to the leisterpoints that we find. They where utilized during night fishing where the leisters where used.