The Excavation Site is an area in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life where the player can dig up fossils, ores, and various artifacts. This is where Carter and Flora live and are employed. Any time that Carter is inside the dig site, you can talk to him, and he will allow you to dig. You can dig until 5pm each day, at which point Carter will stop you and ask if he can look at what you've dug up.
The player is allowed to keep everything that they have dug up, with the exception of tablets which Carter will keep. The dig site will expand each year, assuming that the player has found a tablet in each year.
Item
Year
Sell
1
2
3
4
5/6
Coin
✓
Tablet C
Mysterious Tablet
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Old Coin
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
10
Human Statue
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
40
Moon Ore
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
40
Skull Fossil
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
50
Silver Coin
✓
✓
✓
✓
40
Horse Statue
✓
✓
✓
✓
70
Sugar Ore
✓
✓
✓
✓
50
Fossil
✓
✓
✓
✓
40
Gold Coin
✓
✓
✓
50
Jade Ball
✓
✓
✓
150
Hop Ore
✓
✓
✓
80
Hip Fossil
✓
✓
✓
60
Strange Item
✓
✓
300
Temple Ore
✓
✓
150
Strange Fossil
✓
✓
80
Stone Disc
✓
500
Prosper Ore
✓
300
Back Fossil
✓
400
Item
You found...
Description
1
2
Sell
Coin
...some old money.
A coin found at the Dig Site. Van might buy it from you...
✓
✓
Silver Coin
✓
Gold Coin
Skull Fossil
...some kind of bone.
An item found at the Dig Site. Van might pay well for it...
✓
✓
Fossil
✓
Hip Fossil
Strange Fossil
Back Fossil
Tablet C
An item found at the Dig Site. This could be an incredible discovery...
✓
Tablet D
...a stone tablet with a picture.
✓
Tablet E
Tablet F
Tablet G
Human Statue
...something weird.
An item found at the Dig Site. Van might pay well for it...
✓
Horse Statue
✓
Jade Ball
Strange Item
Stone Disc
Moon Ore
...a pretty stone.
An item found at the Dig Site. Van might pay well for it...
✓
✓
Sugar Ore
✓
Hop Ore
Temple Ore
Prosper Ore
Trivia[]
Regardless of what the weather was before entering the site once you have finished digging the weather will always be sunny.