Saha chapel

The chapel of Saha. Our first work during this summer was to make a map of the old cemetery which is around an old medieval chapel.

Saha crosses

Most of the crosses were old and reading the names of the people buried underneath was hard for us. As we didn't knew how to speak Estonian, reading the names and the epitaphs was hard !

Group in front of Jägala juga

Laetitia's longest job, she is still working on it after many months, is to "clean" digital pictures. These pictures from the 1930's are part of the museum's collections and need to be scanned.

"Cleaned" picture

As you can see, the spots and scratchs of the scanned picture have been erased.

Modern group in front of Jägala juga

We are preparing a photo exhibition which will begin in may 2006. The theme is "landscape", we will present old pictures taken during the first Estonian republic and new ones taken at the same place in 2005 and 2006.

Sacred stone

Remi's first job after the cemetery's map was to locate sacred stones all around the reserve and to take their GPS coordinates. During the first days, Laetitia (seen on the picture) accompagnied him.

Cup mark

The sacred stones were marked, centuries ago by pre-christian Estonians. The cup marks were related to fertility rituals.

Ülgase caves

The northern part of the reserve was a phosphorite mining area during the first Estonian republic and the sovietic times. Nowadays remain only long corridors open to everyone.