Archaeology in Betty’s Bay

I spent Saturday and Sunday helping out on an archaeological dig in Betty’s Bay sorting through shells trying to find anything that wasn’t a shell.
It was great.

The dig site with Jayson Orton leading the excavation.

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Richard trying to figure out if the thing in the tray is a shell or not.

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Rule number one. Don’t touch your face.

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Betty’s bay sunrise

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The shells in the ground

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Jayson’s marked out layers.

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The sieve for extracting  the interesting stuff from the ground,

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