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From right to left - Evans, Felix and Bernard working on the site strip for house 4. Each house is 220 square metres and had 250mm of topsoil removed from it by hand! It was hard work - I know I was digging as well!
Participants got a chance to dig for treasure at the 2013 "Dig into Reading" Summer Reading Kick-Off Day Party at the Rapid City Public Libraries
I spent almost four solid weeks doing nothing much but digging. It was hard work but good. See the tracks made by the wheelbarrows as we removed a couple of hundred tonnes of soil by hand!
Participants got a chance to dig for treasure at the 2013 "Dig into Reading" Summer Reading Kick-Off Day Party at the Rapid City Public Libraries
In 1929, a farmer unearthed a large stash of jade relics while digging a well, many of which found their way through the years into the hands of private collectors. Generations of Chinese archaeologists searched the area without success until 1986, when workers accidentally found sacrificial pits containing thousands of gold, bronze, jade, and pottery artifacts that had been broken (perhaps ritually disfigured), burned, and carefully buried. The first sacrificial pit was found on the site of the Lanxing Second Brick Factory on July 18th 1986. The second sacrificial pit was found a little less than a month later on August 14th, 1986 only 20-30 meters from the first one. Bronze objects found in the second sacrificial pit included male sculptures, animal-faced sculptures, bells, decorative animals such as dragons, snakes, chicks, and birds, and axes, that radiocarbon dating dated as being from the 12th-11th centuries BCE. Tables, masks and belts were some of the objects found made out of gold while objects made out of jade included axes, tablets, rings, knives and tubes. There was also a large amount of ivory and clam shells. Researchers were astonished to find an artistic style that was completely unknown in the history of Chinese art, whose baseline had been the history and artifacts of the Yellow River civilization(s).
All the Sanxingdui discoveries aroused scholarly interest, but the bronzes were what excited the world. Task Rosen of the British Museum considered them to be more outstanding than the Terracotta Army in Xi'an.
The culture of the Sanxingdui site is thought to be divided into several phases. The Sanxingdui Culture which corresponds to periods II-III of the site, was a mysterious civilization in southern China. This culture is contemporaneous with the Shang Dynasty, however they developed a different method of bronze-making from the Shang. The first phase which corresponds to period I of the site belongs to the Baodun, and the final phase (period IV) the culture merged with Ba and Chu cultures. The Sanxingdui culture ended, possibly either as a result of natural disasters (evidence of massive flooding were found), or invasion by a different culture.
An excavator entered the site from Munday HIll Quarry. It then commenced work in the undergrowth beyound where the pond was in the winter months. Later it was digging a shallow trench.
This is my first beach day with my boys for 2016! This is taken at Gobles Grove Beach in Port Elgin! We spend a lot of family time there! The boys love playing in the sand and digging!
The septic tank is buried, which means to get to the covers on the top of it, you actually have to dig them up. My grandparents had a septic tank (which was used before city sewar) and it's lid was slightly above ground. I wondered why the installers couldn't have been bothered to put the lids at least level with the ground. Then the toilets drained out, causing it to overflow. Then I understood why they buried it :-)
This picture shows the gardener is digging the garden. She is doing this by the time of being photographed since digging was the only garden activity she can do and before that she removed all the weeds from the garden.
Local man at Bang Rong digging for shells on an exposed sandbank at low tide. More about kayaking at Bang Rong on my Phuket Blog : www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2009/08/kayaks-in-mangroves.html. Read more on my blog about Bang Rong @ www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2017/05/bang-rong-pier-and-commu... and about the restaurant @ www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2008/02/bang-rong-floating-resta....