The back-filling of the final excavation units where all six burials, 11 earthenware potteries and 5 iron tools were uncovered finally began today and will continue tomorrow. This was going on as students from the local TESDA training school began cleaning the church grounds and the streets to be used for the processions that will mark the Holy Week, which starts on Sunday, the day we leave San Remigio.
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| The back-fill, one of the most important "rituals" in archaeology, where all excavation units are covered over with plastic garbage bags. Coins as well as other time markers (like plastic wrappers) are then thrown over the plastic in order to indicate that the site has already been excavated. Then the original soil that was removed during the excavation process is returned to the unit. |
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