Day 15: the final week begins
Day
15, and the beginning of our final week!
It's a weird feeling. A feeling of
sadness that after this week the excavation will finish. It has been a
gruelling three weeks but has served only to strengthen friendships and
muscles!
Today team D had our final finds session which consisted of us learning about the importance of record cards (for institutions who are not yet digitised) and recording small finds. This helps aid future data retrieval. Although, an artefact does not necessarily have to be small in order to be classified as a 'small find'.
Today team D had our final finds session which consisted of us learning about the importance of record cards (for institutions who are not yet digitised) and recording small finds. This helps aid future data retrieval. Although, an artefact does not necessarily have to be small in order to be classified as a 'small find'.
The purpose of a small find record is to record special and
unique artefacts separately from other excavated material, which is recorded
and treated differently during post-excavation analysis. An example of a small
find would be a coin, which provides valuable dating evidence of a context.
Well this is my final post, so enjoy fellow archaeologists.
Kim
Well this is my final post, so enjoy fellow archaeologists.
Kim
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