Circle Excavation Tools

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Jason Garamund's Mattock Shovel

Crooked Mile Circle Investigators are trained to dig up antiquities that carry with them the bleed that lingers after hundreds of years. During various phases of alchemy, it was possible to condemn artifacts that inhabitants kept in their homes to ward off enemies or inflict harm on them. Investigators use the same tools that archaeologists use: ladders, ropes, baskets, shovels, spades, pickaxes and mattocks. Once the top layer of soil is removed with the shovel, a spade is used to keep the artifact intact. To penetrate the walls of tombs, museums, or building foundations, pickaxes and mattocks were used. Jason Garamund, who visited Otherwhere ruins, brought his converted shove & mattock back to Crooked Mile where he had it replicated by a local blacksmith. Most times, Circle investigators depend on sieves to wash away grime and rock from small pieces. Baskets and wheelbarrows are used to transport the finds to a secret lab that only the Circle uses. Unique technology measures the amount of bleed the artifacts absorbed over the years, whether the item should be immediately sent to the Lighthouse, and what impact it has on creature and human specimens kept in the lab. It is a dangerous process. Investigators wear mask and protective garb to keep themselves from being affected by the bleed. The shovel is current available for a nominal sum at Spouters Tavern

Patent Pending Replica Design 1905

Mattock Mummy Dig Shovel

Original, circa 1097 BCE