For the last three days a group of us has been out taking soil cores at Jaðar and Pafastaðir, a small farm and a large farm north of Stora Seyla. Here’s John checking out a core at Jaðar:
I’ve mostly been out with the GPS, making sure that we accurately record the locations of all cores so we can analyze them later with GIS software:
At Jaðar, we made friends with a wonderful little boy and his dog. We took about a hundred core samples, and found, by sheer luck, the smallest midden ever. Check out this profile:
And at Pafastaðir, just to round things out, we found the largest midden ever! Today we did a lot of coring in the fields at Pafastaðir, among the þufurs – and in the cow pasture:
Orange flag, or delicious new flower?
Over at Seyla, there have been a few artifact finds (which I’ll let someone talk about who’s actually been working there), the site has been completely recorded with ground-penetrating radar, and they’ve been trying out some kite arial photography: