“You go tell the professor about this. I’ll help you formally describe this, and that should be sufficient.”
“Sufficient for what?” she asks.
You look at the ground. “I was really hoping to make an exciting find out here this year. Something I could call my own and write my thesis on.”
“Is that all? Hmn…” She paces around the area for a few minutes, apparently lost in thought. “A-ha!” She draws an ‘X’ in the dirt. “Dig here. Go about two feet down and I think you’ll like what you find. Nothing’s been exposed to the surface so there’s no erosion at all.”
“Thank you!”
“That’s what friends are for.”