Pride and Supervision

30th of July! Not a big day, not a small one. Bob was already dead in my mind and I couldn't help but feel the disappointment after all my crazy strive to dig him disappeared. I guess that is just one of those things with which you just have to learn living with. This was the day when I was sent over to work with Kate, who just had received the white on-site supervisor hat. Needless to say I felt somehow ashamed, there I was - old enough to have graduated already and still being an unexperienced first year. Thoughts like this, however, I never let get in the way of my work. We were supposed to clean a square structure positioned opposite the doorway Lyly has been digging in the last week. Gardening! This day was somewhat of a turning point for me during this archaeological experience. All of a sudden I put myself in the position of a side-viewer and I saw this small, compact team of students, knowing what to do and doing what they have to in order for this project to move forward soundly. The highlight of the day didn't happen until we were all back in the training room, sorting out finds and filling in context sheets. Mark had asked me to write down on a board for the purpose the above-sea levels I had taken for 2 different trenches in the interior of the Upper House. 110.71! 110.72! One centimeter discrepancy and that meant that we were for certain surveying one and the same occupational layer of the site. In my mind what happened on the day after this one is much more interesting and meaningful but if you want to know about you'll just have to be a bit more patient.