October 2011
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The last few days!
Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th October 2011
So, we moved into the very last few days - and Thursday 13th saw another early start as Jo headed up to Alexandria to give a talk at the Library! The talk described the work of this EES mission across the province since the start of 2005, focussing mainly on the investigations that have taken place during 2009-2011, both the ground survey as well as the...
Finishing things up!
Sunday 9th and Wednesday 12th October 2011
Sunday saw the last real day of work up at Quesna! There were many small tasks to be completed and, importantly, the re-organisation of the storeroom before closing the site on Wednesday! Our conservator, Yasser, and one of the team from Berlin, finished work on one of the ceramic coffins, while some of the small finds were drawn by our illustrator who...
Pens down!
Saturday 9th October 2011
Exam day! Today was the final exam for the end of the fieldschool! We met with the students in the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Minufiyeh for the last time this season, and handed out the exam papers! This is a 2 hour exam with questions covering the whole of the fieldschool!
The exam went well with everyone passing and then everyone came back to...
A change of scene!
Wednesday 5th October 2011
Today we headed towards the site of Sersenna! The site contains material of Ptolemaic and Roman date and gave the students a chance to look at another site in the province that was excavated by an SCA mission. With the trenches left open it was possible for the students to look at the stratigraphy in light of their tuition over the past weeks and to get a better...
Working in the storerooms!
Tuesday 4th October 2011
The processing of the finds from the 2011 and earlier seasons has been ongoing since Saturday morning when we headed back up to Quesna. Today the post-excavation analysis of the skeletons excavated from T9 began, with Larry and Sarah confined to the bones ‘lab’ to focus on this material. One of the individuals examined today was the very tall individual found...
Back at the site!
Saturday 1st October 2011
The mornings and evenings are certainly starting to cool down as we head into autumn! We returned to the site this morning following a short break towards the end of last week. The students, as usual, joined us in the afternoon at the university, but the morning was spent in the excavation of one of three burials currently open in Trench 9, that had been drawn, measured,...