June 05 2013 - Another Day, Another Dig.

Today was another lovely sunny day, and everyone was out of the lab and able to enjoy the weather at the site.

A nice photo of the SFU students on their grand tour of the site yesterday. Photo courtesy of Bob Muir.

To begin our morning, we continued to excavate and Bob had Stuart, Wendy and Nadine set up two new excavation units south of the old first growth tree stump where we have been finding cultural evidence over the last few weeks.

Kelsey, Cameron and Tiana getting back to work.

Share your lunch, share your cutlery; it's the archaeological way.

Over the course of the day people were constantly finding cultural material such as nails, metal fragments and pieces of ceramic. Richard was  successful in uncovering what appears to be a metal handle/knob and Tiana found the lid to a small possible tin pill box. There is a scene etched into the small silver lid which looks like a gate, a torii, and entrance to a temple. The torii appears to have a symbol which looks like it could represent Kyoto.

Small tin lid found by Tiana.

Richard and the knob he found in his fruitful unit.

The sunshine continued to entice people to make the trip to the site and we had a couple of other guests stop by today. Our first visitor was Leanne Riding. Leanne specializes in Japanese internment camps, and was interested in checking out the site and sharing some of her information. Our second visitor was Dave, Kathleen's husband. He stopped by in the afternoon and Bob was happy to give him the tour of the site.

Leanne Riding having a look around the site.

Dave and Kathleen all smiles before hitting the trail.

Today also marked perhaps one of the last days we will all be together on site, as from now a lot of students will be spending time in the lab.