Event period: 26 and 27 June 2016
I’m back on Basteira Beach again, boy, it didn’t take me long to get back, contrary to how long my survey lasted: there’s not a single trace of it left. Well, I’m lying, there is something remaining: the square shadow of a different colour that shows that there was something different there, but don’t think there’s much more. I will not say that it didn’t bother me, because it meant losing the work I had already done, but I couldn’t expect anything else either.
In any case, the important thing is that I’m back, that I’ve got a job as a warehouse worker near the Carinho industrial park, and that the woman I was staying with last weekend has given me a good price for my stay for the whole summer. I didn’t think that sending out resumes in the area was going to work, but hey, at least it seems we are on track again, even if it is only a bit.
Anyway, enough about things that don’t matter, what’s really interesting is that I’ve opened another test pit near the old one (again, moving further out to sea) and this time it looks like I’ve got something better on my hands. Beneath the superficial sandy sediment and the coarse sandy sediment just below it, I have found a dark coloured silty layer that seems to want to be something. As I see it, I’m getting closer to what would have been the original soil level before the sea level rose and put layer upon layer of sand.
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It’s worth saying, just in case: I’m not standing in front of a peat bog yet, but it certainly looks better than before. I can dream as long as the bedrock[1] does not appear, and if nothing appears before then I will have to start seriously considering that the peat bog, if it exists, is not in the beach area, but in the permanently flooded part of the sandy area (with all the problems that implies if I want to insist on looking for it). It is that or admit that I’m wasting my time and that there is no such peat bog, so for the moment I prefer to believe the first one.
[1] In archaeology, bedrock is what is usually used to mark the limit at which it is almost impossible for traces of human activity to appear. This is because all the sediment levels above it are those that are temporally framed by the period of existence of the human species. It also happens that this level, as its name indicates, is made of hard rock that could hardly have been worked by ancient human beings, except for very specific uses, such as laying foundations for (normally perishable) buildings.
