So I apologize for the break from blogging, but boy have I been kept busy. A lot has been going on. Finished up the first week of session 2, its been pretty good. Did a bunch of digging of course, got to know a some more of the students better its been fun. Friday night, the three other students who stayed and I took a fun little bus trip down the coast a few hours to a small city named Sozopol, which was amazing. Its pretty small (even though it blows up during the summer) and the hotel we stayed in was absolutely incredible when compared to the one we stay in at Varna. We went out for dinner at a nice restaurant, which was fun even though our waitress was way off her rocker and we got ripped off, but then hung out on our balcony, from which we had an awesome view of one of the sweetest coves I've ever seen. Afterwords cruised down the bech with a friend, which had the softest, finest sand I've walked in for ages, and walked along part of a super old sea wall fortress wall thing. It was a really cool city, and after only spending one night there I really want to go back during my week of travels after I finish session two.
^ That was an a quick draft I wrote and meant to post a few days ago, but unfortunately I didn't get around to it. Now I'll try to add some more.
Tomorrow is my last day on the site. After four weeks! I'm sad to see it go. It has been one hell of a time. Most recently, yours truly (with help of course) managed to find and uncover two graves! It was incredibly weird and exciting. We found the first grave, in my square, because the was a "negative structure" evident from a rectangle (maybe 4 x 10) of brown, softer soil in the level of hard, lighter (color) limestoney soil. We fond it at the end of the day, so we had to cover it with different dirt for the night so looters wouldn't dig it up in our absence. The next day we cleared it, took a picture for the records and I began digging down just where that soil was. About a meter down I hit two rows of large foundation rocks lining the sides. That was one of the most exciting moments of the whole thing! There actually is something down there. Then another half-meter down, after more careful dirt removal a skeleton appeared. Success! That was my first foray into gravedigging and it was epic.
Then the second grave I found in the square next to me (a few days ago). After digging down in a grave shape once again I found these few random bricks about 2 meters deep (under an old turkish kiln, but thats another story). These were surrounded by random holes, which just vanished into darkness. That was incredible to uncover after a hard days digging. Today we tried to excavate it more, and we created a big enough hole for someone to put a camera in and snap a picture. There's an empty chamber in under the tiles, and more lined foundation stones like the other grave! It's super eerie to see all that hollow space under maybe 8 feet of dirt? Really exciting though, and I loved playing such sweet parts in the discoveries.
The other part of my field school for the past two weeks consisted of drawing the artifacts we found, and imputing them into the official site book, which will eventually be added to the permanent museum record and presented at conferences and such. The other student who have been here fore all four weeks and I have been doing that every day from about 3:30 to 5:30. Its been really sweet to be able to add our own workmanship to the record books. Today was our last day of drawing though, and on our way out we found our site directer sitting at the museum cafe, so we sat down with him for some coffee. Turns out we were at the staff tables, which sit on 3rd century roman table posts! I want to work at a museum more and more now - I cant wait! Hopefully it goes down.
I'm sorry this is all I have time for at the moment, but I hope all is well wherever you are.
Sending lots of love and i can't wait to see you all in a bit over a week.
stay up out there xo
^ That was an a quick draft I wrote and meant to post a few days ago, but unfortunately I didn't get around to it. Now I'll try to add some more.
Tomorrow is my last day on the site. After four weeks! I'm sad to see it go. It has been one hell of a time. Most recently, yours truly (with help of course) managed to find and uncover two graves! It was incredibly weird and exciting. We found the first grave, in my square, because the was a "negative structure" evident from a rectangle (maybe 4 x 10) of brown, softer soil in the level of hard, lighter (color) limestoney soil. We fond it at the end of the day, so we had to cover it with different dirt for the night so looters wouldn't dig it up in our absence. The next day we cleared it, took a picture for the records and I began digging down just where that soil was. About a meter down I hit two rows of large foundation rocks lining the sides. That was one of the most exciting moments of the whole thing! There actually is something down there. Then another half-meter down, after more careful dirt removal a skeleton appeared. Success! That was my first foray into gravedigging and it was epic.
Then the second grave I found in the square next to me (a few days ago). After digging down in a grave shape once again I found these few random bricks about 2 meters deep (under an old turkish kiln, but thats another story). These were surrounded by random holes, which just vanished into darkness. That was incredible to uncover after a hard days digging. Today we tried to excavate it more, and we created a big enough hole for someone to put a camera in and snap a picture. There's an empty chamber in under the tiles, and more lined foundation stones like the other grave! It's super eerie to see all that hollow space under maybe 8 feet of dirt? Really exciting though, and I loved playing such sweet parts in the discoveries.
The other part of my field school for the past two weeks consisted of drawing the artifacts we found, and imputing them into the official site book, which will eventually be added to the permanent museum record and presented at conferences and such. The other student who have been here fore all four weeks and I have been doing that every day from about 3:30 to 5:30. Its been really sweet to be able to add our own workmanship to the record books. Today was our last day of drawing though, and on our way out we found our site directer sitting at the museum cafe, so we sat down with him for some coffee. Turns out we were at the staff tables, which sit on 3rd century roman table posts! I want to work at a museum more and more now - I cant wait! Hopefully it goes down.
I'm sorry this is all I have time for at the moment, but I hope all is well wherever you are.
Sending lots of love and i can't wait to see you all in a bit over a week.
stay up out there xo
wow a skeleton spooky
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