Day 7/13. Excavating the Kittiskoski E multiperiod dwelling site in Lohja SW. Finland

The weather was beautiful today at Kittiskoski when the first group of 13 year old Swedish speaking students from Källhagens skola dug into the stone-age find layers of the site. Everybody had their share of the finds and the day was a very carefree and happy one.

Ornate Typical Comb Cermic rimsherd (ca 3500 BC).

The students, teachers and archaeologists all enjoyed the sunny and warm weather which sadly will end tomorrw according to the meteorologist when a low with continuous rain will arrive in S, Finland from the south. This will force us to take "the show" indoors at least for tomorrow as the wet soil would be very difficult to excavate properly by the students.

21 students participated in the excavation today.

In order to check tha no finds go unnoticed archaeologist MA Janne Soisalo and archaeology student Katja Hippeläinen have been sieving all of the soil excavated by the students. This work too would turn very difficult during wet weather conditions.

MA Janne Soisalo instructing a student and sieving the excavated soil together with archaeology student Katja Hippeläinen.

Thumbs up that we can continue excavating again on Wednesday 👍