Switching Trenches
Brú na Bóinne Dig Day 47 July 2023 - Drogheda
Today was a sunny day at the dig. We finished widening trench 3's lower part to a 5x5 square and then cleaned the full area with trowels. During the trowel cleaning I lucky found my 3rd flint tool, in roughly the same spot where David found 6 of them the day before.
In the afternoon I switched over to the other side of the hill to work in trenches 1 & 2 for the rest of the week. I spent the afternoon in trench 2. First there was some digging to do, where I found a chunk of flint - not a tool, but something discarded while making one.
The we started to disassemble the 18th century rock structure. It seems to have be a waste dump for rocks, shale roofing, etc. centered on a squarish rock structure loosely cemented together with a large, interesting stone stood up in the middle. Steve Davis thinks there might be something neolithic underneath. The landowner said he stood the big old stone up there to scare off miscreants of a "Christian persuasion".
In the evening the fun continued as we all went to Daly's pub in Donore to learn about reconstruction drawing and try our hands at imagining and illustrating what the Boyne Valley may have looked like from our site in the neolithic.
