Day 9/13. Excavating the Kittiskoski E multiperiod dwelling site in Lohja SW. Finland

Today the weather cleared making it possible for the third group of students from Källahagens skola to participate in the excavation. The students were divided into three smaller groups as during the previous days with some 7 students excavating at the same time.

The excavation has proceeded to the top of the  second excavation layer which usually means that the finds become more plentiful and also bigger in size (especially the potsherds). As the third group of students started their excavation work we informed them of the need to be extremely careful when excavating as plenty of well preserved stone-age finds might turn up. 

Early Typical Comb Ceramic rimsherd from todays excavation.

This proved to be the case as one of the student named Kalle found the oldest and best preserved rimsherd of the 2022 excavation. The potsherd dates to the early stage of the Typical Comb Ceramic Culture (ca 3800-3700 BC).

The Comb Ceramic pots were made with a simple with coiling technique (drawing by Tom Björklund).

Sadly just as things started to get really interesting it seems tomorrow will bring more rain which forces us to spend the day in the classroom once again. We hope to be back excavating again on Friday.