Paula's in the cave!

3 May 2007.

Paula was up in the field with me during the early part of the week, which was wonderful. She left on Tuesday, but will be back in a few weeks. Here's a great photo of her in the cave. She is pointing to one of the corners of the pit. You can see that the pit goes through an archway. Luckily, you can squeeze into the back of the archway to excavate the other side of the pit, which is where I am taking the photo from. Paula is also holding the main tool we use- a trowel- and you can see part of a dustpan in the bottom of the photo. Generally, we slowly remove layers of dirt into the dustpan, then empty it into a bucket to be hauled outside and up to the car. It's very physical work, and definitely helpful to have someone else in the cave with me!