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bedlamsbardToday we went test-pitting at Bury Farm, where I was way, way too attached to the mattock. IT WAS SO AWESOME, GUYS. Screw the trowel and the shovel and the spade and sieve, I was all over the mattock. Also, I can't recognize flints, so I was kind of useless on the sieve, but I could break up earth like nobody's business. (I don't know, I think one of the other girls on our test pit was kind of judging me, once she found out that I have no archaeology or anthropology experience. We've got a few non-anth majors, but I think I'm the only one without any experience whatsoever. But we worked pretty well together, though we didn't find anything super-exciting.) Anyway. We were there from nine till five, and at about four I pretty much hit my point of, "I'm over this, guys," (also, they stopped letting me use the mattock because we might have been near a new soil layer) and spent the next half-hour or so scraping desultorily at our test pit with a trowel.
Also, today I found out that an English flapjack is not even remotely similar to an American flapjack. Good, though. The homemade ones (from one of the ACE people's mother) were considerably better than the packaged ones in our lunches. We then proceeded to have a slightly confused conversation with a couple of the ACE people about the difference between American flapjacks and English flapjacks. (American flapjacks are pancakes. And I think English pancakes are the same as American pancakes, although our flapjacks may be closer to drop scones? I don't know if this works without visual references.)
Tomorrow we shall be doing more test-pitting, and then we have Sunday off. (THANK THE GODS.) Monday we are in London -- at the British Museum in the morning, and then we have the afternoon free, so if anyone in London wants to meet up on Monday afternoon...
Also, today I found out that an English flapjack is not even remotely similar to an American flapjack. Good, though. The homemade ones (from one of the ACE people's mother) were considerably better than the packaged ones in our lunches. We then proceeded to have a slightly confused conversation with a couple of the ACE people about the difference between American flapjacks and English flapjacks. (American flapjacks are pancakes. And I think English pancakes are the same as American pancakes, although our flapjacks may be closer to drop scones? I don't know if this works without visual references.)
Tomorrow we shall be doing more test-pitting, and then we have Sunday off. (THANK THE GODS.) Monday we are in London -- at the British Museum in the morning, and then we have the afternoon free, so if anyone in London wants to meet up on Monday afternoon...