My trowel snapped on the second day of a dig near Abilene and I finished the square with a butter knife from my lunchbox

Mary West · 2026-10-03T12:05:04.247291+00:00

The weld on the handle gave out about 20 cm down and I was too stubborn to drive into town for a new one. A grad student lent me her spare, but it felt wrong in my hand so I mostly used a dull butter knife and it actually scraped cleaner around the bone fragments. Has anyone else had a cheap trowel fail mid-season, and did you just replace it or switch brands entirely?

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My trowel snapped on the second day of a dig near Abilene and I finished the square with a butter knife from my lunchbox | Archaeology Discoveries - Thought Shares