The 5 of us in our small C1 South site were joined today with a teenager - Hodie. He helped Sabina & Merilyn in their larger area, and they brought the level down a good 8-10 inches; it's slow going even in the best of circumstances. I found some interesting things in my little 4 x 12' "grave" -- I found a strange worm-like pottery object which got catalogued because they must identify it, I found a pottery shard with a small pattern incised, and another with a hole which was made nearly 2,000 years ago to patch up a broken pot. I enjoyed pottery wash. Each bucket of shards has a catalog tag which we transfer to a basket. So we sit there with two buckets of water and wash the shards with a nail brush. It's a very social time and we talk about what people in other sectors have found. Also everyone is in a good mood because the manual labor is through for the day. The find of the day was an intact chain for an oil lamp found under the Byzantine church.
At 6 PM we had a lecture on Jerusalem under Persian rule and what texts in the Old testament said about that period of 600 years.
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