While we can do may things in Germany that we can do in the States...what is the one Absolute activity that we CANNOT do?
If you answered DIG for ROMAN RUINS, than you are correct!
On May 19th, Stryker-Ann's class took a trip to Augusta Raurica, a large Roman settlement and city dating from 50 year Before Christ, and just over the Rhine from Germany into Switzerland. Here is the website, most in English if you click on subjects: www.augustaraurica.ch/e/menu/index.php
The kids did actual real digging. It was not for play and just for educational purposes. The man running the program said that although school groups and families dig slow the findings are real. A professional group would have dug in three days the same amount that the school groups dig in two weeks. All finds become property of the Swiss government.
SAM found a nail!
How cool to find a 2,000 year old nail!
"So is this a rock or something else, like a piece of pottery?", Paul and Frau Schwartz ask the head archeologist at the site.
More finds....
And then learning how to map a site....
Next the class learns how to classify items from a dig and just how difficult it is to but together all of the pieces of a find.
Back to the dig site and the sun!
A boy in the class found something of import...a button or a toggle from a piece of clothing. This piece might make it to the museum. It was tagged with his name as the finder!
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Yeah, that's pretty NEAT! (((((HUGS))))) sandi
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