Solo
Spent the morning at home pottering around getting a few things together ready for a ‘Bear hunt’. At the farm dithered a bit with ‘this and that’, chatted with the farmer, and so was a little later underground than anticipated, no matter!
Today’s objective (beyond Trick or Treat/AUD area) was to have a closer look at where we were with things and give the surface area where the faunal remains have been recovered a good clean with the trowel, preparing the ground for excavation now it’s dried out. During the cleaning process more faunal remains were recovered (including partial podials and phalanx, Ursus arctos). A couple of specimens were encased in calcite and required some gentle persuasion with small hammer and chisel to recover them.
The faunal remains were bagged and tagged, photographs were taken, and notes were made. The specimens were removed for cleaning, drying, ready to be identified and catalogued. Several bags (9 in total) were filled with sediment in about 3 hours – time passed so quickly.
