Archaeology

Uncovered while shifting the slash heaps - we believe this to be the fossilized thigh bone of the rare fidofoodus masticus.

For publicity purposes and to gets its discovery more widely acknowledged in social media this only recently discovered example of prehistoric life has been nicknamed the Gnawesome Distractor.

Extrapolating from this single bone, we have imagined a creature which looked remarkably like an expensive shoe, luring it's prey into the dark recesses of closets before smacking it down with a cheap slipper.

Further down the section the remains of a, now extinct, species of parrot has been uncovered tangled in some particularly gnarly gorse roots. It is speculated that it died falling (probably tripped over said gnarly roots) and has been preserved in such remarkable condition by the acidity of the organic layer into which it fell.

Pretty polly parrot

See Cathy at Still Waters for my source information on the Genus (Pretty) and species (polly) of this parrot.

Finally this week a discovery that suggests either a contamination of the dig site with material from the anthropocene or an ancient visit by aliens who left humanity their design for fastening clothes ....

More imaginative scholars have theorized that it could possibly be an early human artwork - naive representation of the human form..... a fertility symbol.🤔🫤

(Every bl**dy thing is a fertility symbol if the scholars can't think of any practical use for it.)