A surprising visit.

Today we had a surprising visit from one of the peatbogs inhabitants. One frog, or perhaps toad ( I´m an archaeologist not a biologist) was taking a swim in one of our waterfilled trenches. It looked just as surprised as I did when it saw me.

Is it a frog or a toad?

The peat bog spirits are still with us. We have found some quite interesting artefacts that will help us in dating the site and some that leaves us standing as big question marks.

First of all we have found two villingebaek arrowheads wich dates back to the middle of the kongemose period, I think that´s about 8000 years ago. Theese are really good indicators of what period of the stone age we are excavating.

One of the Villingebaek arrowheads.

Before lunch Arne lifted a stone that we had been excavating around for about a weeks time. It was not just a stone it was a complete stone axe. I think he left it there for a couple of days, just to test us.

We have also found two fragments of flint edged bone points. Something that could be a quarts arrowhead with resin still attached at the base. This would be a bit of a odd thing, because we mostly find flint artefacts in Skåne. We have also found something that I´m pretty shure is somekind of a flint axe. I´m still trying to find out what kind of type it is. One leisterpoint and one bladescraper is two other nice finds that we have found this week.

Theis leisterpoint marked with a torn Danish flag.

The finds that really excite me this week are all the wooden stakes that we have found in situ. It does not take a lot of imagining to connect these into different structures such as huts.

The most puzzling find of the week must be the 3,5m long wooden artefact that we found a bit north of the main site. The wooden pole is cut in a way so that the wood fibres are not broken. First we thougth it was a bow, but then again it´s a bit too long and thick for a bow. So our next guess is a wooden pole used to manoeuvre a canoe or boat, or it could also be material to make a bow. A pike tooth was found next to the pole.

The wooden pole.

One authumn about 8000 years ago, this leaf fell of a willow tree into the water and sank to the bottom of the lake. Yesterday I dugg it up. It´s not an amazing archaeological find, butt it puts things in another perspective.