So Tuesday and yesterday we went to Ostia Antica to volunteer at an archaeological dig put on by Kent University (England). Quote of the week: "The young men seem to enjoy maddocking large clumps of dirt." You must imagine it with the quaintest english accent possible, spoken slowly and thoughtfully, coming from a man wielding a maddock (hoe-like tool) as though it were a croquet mallet. That pretty much sums up the spirit of these two days. We mostly did hard labor, clearing off the top layer of dirt on one of the gridded squares, occasionally finding pottery fragments and mosaic stones. Next week we are going on Tuesday and Thursday as well, and then we get to do some drawing (they draw scaled plans and elevations of all of the excavations).
Pictures: 1. ruins
2. archaeological site
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