Today our group took a site photography
workshop, this was quite interesting and I very much enjoyed taking pictures as
opposed to actually digging! Although the thought of dropping a five hundred
pound camera was a little daunting! We also managed to do a little 'levelling'
using the infamous dumpy level, we were all familiar with dumpy levels having
had used them in year one on a different project, although every bit of
practice is invaluable with those wonky devils. We also used the ordnance
survey bench mark to identify how far above sea level the site was and so we
could accurately measure the depths of other features within the site. These two
workshops were an excellent introduction to the more technical side of field
archaeology and provided a foundation for further knowledge.
Our team still continued to excavate down to the terram and made some
headway into fully digging the drainage ditch out. Little wary of working on
the drainage ditch when it's raining. Still though, I would not like to be
digging the deep pits the boys ended up digging!
Simon getting group C started with levelling
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