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Excavations - Day 1
Jun. 29th, 2009 05:45 pmToday we were at Stóra-Seyla, a Viking-era farmstead a few miles outside of Sauðárkrókur. SASS has worked it for several years in a row, so the site was under a layer of "geotextile," which was under a thick layer of turf. Also, we want to do ground-penetrating radar on another part of the site, so another huge area needed to be cleared of turf and smoothed before we can start that.
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Tomorrow we're going to finish shovel scraping and probably also finish shoveling off the previously excavated walls. And for a big chunk of the day we're going on a Turf Tour, to learn how to recognize various types of turf houses in varying states of decay. I'm looking forward to the tour!
( click here for pictures and stuff )
Tomorrow we're going to finish shovel scraping and probably also finish shoveling off the previously excavated walls. And for a big chunk of the day we're going on a Turf Tour, to learn how to recognize various types of turf houses in varying states of decay. I'm looking forward to the tour!
