Day Six
Hello all, this is Sheona and Chantelle and we are the two year 10 work experience students that have been working here, in the Redcliffe Museum for the past two days.
Today we started out with the introduction that Michelle read us and what our goal for the day was. This was to mainly work in trench 2, hopefully finding something relating to the kiln before they have to fill it all in at the end of the day.
So the Archaeologists got hard at work with that and the uni students while we were waiting for the first group of primary students to arrive, grade sevens from Humpybong Primary School. There were two lovely groups of students who came in the morning. We helped them and showed them to be Archaeologists in the mini trench (trench 3) that all the students who come to visit get to learn in.
It was hard work and a lot of fun, very worth while and the students were excited and happy to have a mess around in there, some of them made some nice finds, lots of pottery and glass, which was great. Some other finds like an old tap head and a doorstopper was found in there also.
Both groups of grade 7 students from Humpybong were lovely and we enjoyed having them so much.
The dig continued tirelessly during the day, with our great archaeological team and uni students and not to forget the people volunteering. There were tea breaks and of course with bikkies, everyone loves the bikkies. =]
This lead us up to the nice, relaxing lunch break, that was once again catered for; today with some nice, big sandwiches, muffins and fruit, all of it was exceptional! Once again thank you caterers we loved it!
So for the rest of the day, until about 2 pm, the dig went on!
From our past discoveries, we know that the kiln was there… but we didn’t find much more today, but at least we are absolutely sure that it was there, somewhere. Then later that afternoon, the last major event before and while everyone packing up was when the bobcats came in to fill in the trenches. Eventually, at a good pace, the job was done and that was the end of our first settlement archaeological dig. Though we were happy and felt successful, we all knew it was going to be sad when it was all over with, and it was… but in the end we were all glad we had accomplished what we had set out to do! So thank you everyone for all your support; we had a lot of fun, we hope you did to!
Written by Chantelle and Sheona, 15-09-09.
