The Evocave excavation has started this week! 

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Installing the scaffold. Foto: Trond Lødøen

We have had a fantastic welcome at the Norcem factory in Kjøpsvik where the excavation takes place.

During this first week, we settled in, got used to our accommodation and started preparing for the next major steps. We surveyed the two locations that we will excavate: “Norcemgrotta” and “Nygrotta” and set up the wet-sieving station for down-stream handling of sediments. We also took many, many photographs documenting both caves in detail pre-excavation. For this, we also flew a drone inside Norcemgrotta in order to take close up photographs from top of the sediment deposit, which is several meters high!

A major step forward is therefore that we finalized the scaffold that will allow us to access and excavate this deposit from the top down. The next few days we will start the excavation in earnest and establish our routines to efficiently process large amounts of sediments. 

By Bastiaan Star and Marius Robu
Published Sep. 4, 2021 9:19 PM - Last modified Sep. 4, 2021 10:15 PM