Blacksmiths can make their own blacksmithing tools. I’m not a blacksmith but I had some flat bar steel in my scrap collection so I decided I needed to make an archaeology trowel. My model for the trowel was one of Tom McGovern’s specialty trowels which is nicknamed the “Italian Racing Trowel” due to the slender […]

I’m looking forward to heading back to Iceland and excavating more at the site of Gufuskálar in Western Iceland. Here’s a photo of the lava field where the Medieval fishermen at the site would dry the large cod fish they caught.

Tags: fieldwork, Gufuskálar