The chicken having been stuffed with lemon and pinned is ready for the ground oven.
Once the chicken was in the oven it would be time to cover it with green sticks, bows, and dirt
Because the gound was so hard and rockly I could not dig a pit. Instead I built everything above ground. We would not have even close to enough dirt to make the oven air tight.
More pine needles then normal, but they were easy enough to remove. Tasty this was