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While visiting Israel, we went to visit the Temple Mount Sifting Project. Everyone stood in front of a sink covered with a screen sieve, out under a large tent ceiling. Each person was given a bucket of rubble retrieved from the city dump.

The Arabs had deliberately destroyed a lot of artifacts while excavating under part of the Temple Mount with BULLDOZERS, in an attempt to erase signs of Jewish history and previous occupation of the site. They then dumped their resulting rubble into the city dump.

By using the provided garden hose by each sink to rinse off the rubble in your bucket poured over the sieve, and then sifting through the contents of each bucket, participants found ancient Roman coins, burned animal bones (from sacrifices?), Byzantine tile (that's what I found), and numerous other artifacts. This sounds like a project similar to this.