Surveying mile after mile, bone point after bone point.

Erik and I continue the survey. In the morning we where joined by Aija and Eva. We searched the southern parts of the bog in an area that has been heavily harvested. Some areas are down to the lime sediment layers. Theese layers provide great preservation conditions for bone material. And it is in theese white layers that we´ve found the bone points. Sometimes it feels like walking through a dessert while surveying the lime sediments.

Aija, Eva and Erik searching the white lime sediments.

After having enjoyed a great lunch cooked by Beesham, Sergeij and Tatiana joined us on our "treasure hunt". It did not take long untill we found our first bone point of the day, and moments later Sergeij found a beutiful barbed bone point.

Tatiana holding the base of a bone point. The pointy part has been broken of. This has propably been part of a leister.

Our Ukrainian friend, looking very satisfied with his barbed leister point.

There is a special kind of structure that we have at Rönneholm. In Swedish we call them fyndplättar, a direct translation of this could mean "finds pancake" so in English we just call them "a small concentration" Come to think about it perhaps finds pancake is not such a bad word after all. Because pancakes are nice, and finding a "finds pancake" is really nice. These concentrations are in fact small makeshift hearts that consist of gravel, charcoal, torches, flint blades, micro blades, hazelnuts, roasted waterlilly seeds bone and in some cases pendants made of a feeline tooth.

Plan drawing a concentration.

These concentrations are like snapshots from the mesolithic. Imagine 6000-7000 years ago a small group of people had a little break while perhaps nigth fishing with leisters. They made a little fire, cracked open some hazelnuts, ate a handfull of roasted waterlilly seeds, repaired some equipment, told some incredible fishing stories about the big one that got away and then left. All this in perhaps an hour.

At the end of the day Erik found yet another bone point. He seems to find these wherever he looks.