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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Carmel Church wrap-up
We finished up our second Carmel Church excavation of 2010 on Sunday, with the completion of our last two jackets, shown above just before they were flipped. These were our fourth and fifth jackets of the trip. We unloaded them … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 13
I was hoping that we would be finishing up today, but it just wasn’t to be. We successfully completed two more jackets (2010-04 and 05), but we were unable to complete the next two jackets because of all the bone … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 12
We’re approaching the end of our excavation, and we’re mostly making plaster jackets now. Besides making the bottom of our first jacket from a few days ago, we also made top jackets for two new ones. Here’s jacket 2010-04 just … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 11
We spent a scorching day working on trenches for the four jackets we’re hoping to remove by this Saturday. As usual, this produced a wealth of teeth and small bones that had to be removed and bagged (and, in some … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 10
We’re starting to get a good idea now of where the excavation is going the rest of the week. We’re going to try to get a total of five jackets out. After successfully flipping the first jacket this morning, we … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 9
We finally reached the point where we could make our first jacket today (jacket number 2010-03). In the photo above, it’s finally trenched and undercut, and ready for plaster.
Carmel Church Day 8
We had 14 people digging this morning, the largest single group I’ve ever had working at the quarry. We had students and/or faculty from Lynchburg College, Roanoke College, Earlham College, and two different high schools among the group.
Carmel Church Day 7
We continued working into the face of the pit today, gradually working back into the hillside. Our biggest holdup is that the east side of the pit (just out of view in the foreground) is much more deeply weathered than … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 6
While we put in a full day at the site today, I don’t have a lot of pretty pictures to show off. We have uncovered a bunch of heavily weathered whale bones, that unfortunately require lengthy preparation to look like … Continue reading
Carmel Church Day 5
As our pit has expanded things have been picking up a bit. Our biggest find today (actually, a small part was exposed yesterday) was a large baleen whale lower jaw. It’s visible in the image above as the long straight … Continue reading
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