The 4th week has come & gone with just a small group of volunteers working on the dig.  Emitt & Kelen Wilson were back for the 13th time, Barney Trams was here for the umpteenth time & a few others rounded out the group to 8.

 

Kelen found a quite beautiful glass bead with ribbing in area A west as seen in the 2 pics below.  It's Phoenician from the Hellenistic period.  Good finding Kelen!

                  

 

Barney headed up a small team in storage rooms south of chambers 1 & 2 inside the iron age main city gate. He's completed restoration of a number of large iron aged vessels.  Good job Barney!

                    

 

 

At Rami's request, Judith, with a little help from me, made a replica of an iron age weaving loom using real iron age (~3000 years old) loom weights.  She started the weaving & brought it over to the volunteers at pottery reading time, showed them how to continue the weaving & watched the progress over the weeks.  Here's a pic of Rami working on the loom.

 

                                          

 

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              Link to all the pictures I took this season  - CLICK HERE

              Note : Interesting archaeology blog - http://archaeologydigs.blogspot.com/

              Human interest - http://www.communitycorrespondent.com/kptm/, search for Judith Schwartz