Garbage dump

There are several middens on this island… it’s a “garbage dump” where Native Americans once lived on the beach…this is at the end of our bay….probably a summer camp in the late 1800s for a Salish tribe nearby.   It is rich in clams , (butter, cockles , razor, littleneck also geoduck) and mussels and oysters ( used to be more ) and limpets etc.. all good food that the natives shucked and threw "out the window" on the dump ( compost?). Then the water action breaks them into further little pieces. We’ve found several little “beads” there and my neighbor has found quite a few. (blipped HERE) so I was hoping to find something good today as a possible entry for the weekly challenge for ‘History”  (Hard to find anything too historical in these parts.)    You can see layers of shells in the dirt here,,,,there could be pottery shards or stone tools mixed in.....  that grey thing on the left is our rowing float in the place where  we store it in the winter.    A nice day… We’re getting ready to leave for the city so early blip for me.....unless I see something spectacular on the way home... :-)