9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
2:38 p.m.
This just jogged my memory of another dig, I think it was either at Helike or Stymphalos.
They found rooftiles. Many, many rooftiles. Imagine about four 20' shipping containers
filled to the ceiling with bags of whole and shattered rooftiles. Before you can get rid
of them, you have to clean them. So it was a poor undergrad's job, sitting at a bucket
of water, washing off roof tiles looking for ones that are of interest. If it's the
one at Helike, that's the one where a fellow got *both* sunstroke and hypothermia at
the same time. He wasn't good at the idea of pacing himself....
On 2012-08-09, at 3:49 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
My cousin was on a dig like that, maybe 15 years ago, I think in
Sicily. I think she said that on that occasion, they just used a
backhoe to move the pile over a bit.