I have made it through another succesful day on site! I have fully cleaned my skeleton and taken its photo and plotted it onto the site plan. I have started to fill in the skeleton form (and they have copies in English!!!) and learning to new skills along the way. We have to do field anthropology and describe how the bones are in what position and things like that. It was very interesting to learn and get to carry out more tomorrow :)
Today the mayor of Mechelen came on to site and I got to meet him, to me he looked like a normal man in a suit! They don't dress up like the ones we have here. But was funny watching him walk around a muddy site dressed up nicely!!! It rained in the morning although it was dry in the afternoon so was starting to dry when he got there. By the time I finished it was nice sunny weather! He used to be some minister of Belgium which explains why people were acted strange when he came on to site. I had a nice conversation with him about whether I was a student or not, if I was enjoying in my time there and that it was great as its showing the public archaeology!!! This was all carried out in English.
I am getting use to the 6am starts and the buses full of school kids but looking forward to sleeping at the weekend.
Tomorrow I will lift the skeleton and then start on my next one, hopefully I will be quicker on the next burial.
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