Dr. Greg Jenks from St. Francis college, Australia, arrived with a group of 8.  Dr. Nicolae Roddy from Creighton University arrived with a total of 21 (wow!) people.  Welcome aboard.  There were 3 father/daughters, 1 mother/son & 1 couple from France in addition to the Americans & individuals from a few other countries.

 

Work continued in A east, outside the eastern side of the iron age city wall.  The shards appear to be early iron age or late bronze age making this spot one of the oldest places at Bethsaida.  The volunteers under the direction of Kate continued to excavate the storage room area & to look for the entrance to this area. In A west walls & structures were slowly being uncovered in order to get a clearer picture of the city in the Roman/Hellenistic periods.  Nicolae & group worked in area C & also were slowly excavating structures & walls.

 

Many interesting finds showed up as you can see below & on the Special Pics page.  The 1st on the left is the bull's/horse's? head neck of a libation vessel found in area C.  Very unique & beautiful.  The 2nd is the type of jug that in was 1st used in the Byzantine period as a grenade.  Note that the top is knocked off - maybe a place for a fuse?  Note the sickle, sword & knife found close together in A west.  Great work everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

      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