Just a few pictures of a dig I went to on the Ile d'Yeu (France), because the setting was lurrrvely. About the dig: a Neolithic promontory enclosure with a dry-stone embankment on a rocky bit of island, just above the Atlantic. A lot of small flakes and tools (made from beach pebbles, quartzites etc.), a lot of wind, a lot of crying (sand... wind... eyes... tears). A lot of promising circular structures that we weren't allowed to touch because they were home to a rare endemic little yellow flower. And of course, as always with those sites that are just next to the ocean, it is fairly urgent to dig it up and record it because it will soon have been swallowed by the hungry Atlantic.
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| The structures-that-shall-not-be-excavated |
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| No wonder Neolithic peeps decided to go there for their holidays! |
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| Ready to dig! |
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| Glamorous archaeology is a myth. |
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