Museum Victoria and Monash University have conducted “Dinosaur Dreaming” digs since 1995. Originally at the Flat Rocks site outside Inverloch, Victoria, it has evolved to include localities along the Bass and Otway Coasts. Since 2008 this blog has shared images and stories of crew taking part in excavations, fossil bones recovered, and fossilly things we get up to between digs. The most recent dig took place at Twin Reefs for 3 weeks in February 2025.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Bones from the 2025 Field Season
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Power at the dig house
Monday, 3 March 2025
Keeping the buckets separate
This year, we were especially careful to make sure that we were able to assign a bucket number to each fossil found. Which left us with a problem to solve: how do we make sure that the rocks left unprocessed at the end of the dig don't get mixed in together? We know that if we left them in their buckets in Lesley's shed, they would not stay that way for long.
The answer? Store the contents of each bucket in a separate sandbag! Amber and Corrie labelled each sandbag (with lovely new metal labels we bought from the gardening department of the hardware store) and each tray (with the cloth tape labels we used at site) and stacked them in the shed, where they should remain safe and separate until our next rock-breaking session.
And look - they even stacked them in reverse date order so we will process the oldest ones first!
Sandbags for each "bucket" - photo by Amber |