Despite being bitten to
death, nothing could defeat our enthusiasm for excavation, as every scrape of
the trowel yielded half a dozen items for the finds tray, We found things
faster than they could be washed and bagged. Today we focused on one area which
we divided into quadrants A-D, and started on areas A and B. While B seemed to
contain an old bed, perhaps from the camp, A was full of butchered animal
bones, food tins, glass bottles and pottery. All of these items seemed to
huddle into mini-clusters, suggested that each cluster was the result of a
smaller rubbish bin. In one small area I found a comb, fragments of mirror and
a medicine bottle, perhaps waste from the bathroom or medical area.
We found some great items
today: some aluminium food tins that had been recycled and turned into food
bowls. One had little handles attached and another had a prisoner number and
initials added. This was probably the star find - it was glorious to find this
example of trench art.
We also found a spoon, fork
and knife, perhaps part of the camp equipment for prisoners (but not the
knife); a coin, a forced labourer button-stud from a uniform, and a padlock -
perhaps the original one from the camp gates!
Today's image shows just a
small fraction of today's finds. I think that our finds area for washing and
drying items will be full within the first 36 hours of the dig!
(Blog entry written by Gilly Carr)
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