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Excavating and recording an archaeological site

A dig has a fixed number of weeks on site, and every layer has to be recorded before it is dug away. This project holds a to-do list per area, a daily check-in on the day's finds, site and finds photos, and a calendar of visits.

The Steinhauer Brewery Excavation project in Thicket over a photograph of an old river town's brick houses stepping down a hill: the health flag reading On track, the dig dates and seven people, then six cards: the Calendar with the photogrammetry of the lower vault next, To-dos with four lists on the progress chart, the Message Board with the site tours on top, Site photos as nine photographs of the excavation and its stone cellars, Check-ins asking which contexts each person closed today, and Finds lab as nine photographs of bottles, pipes and brewery objects, then External links to the context register, the plans and sections, and the vault models.

Ottenburg City Archaeology keeps the dig's visits, site tours and handover on the Calendar and tracks each area of the dig and the finds as lists in To-dos, four of them on the progress chart. The crew posts discoveries like a second cellar vault on the Message Board, answers a daily Check-ins question on what each area turned up, and keeps site and finds photos in two Docs & Files grids.

In this project

The tools on the project's page, in the order shown above, and what each one holds.

  • Calendar

    7 events, the next “Photogrammetry of the lower vault”

  • To-dos

    5 lists, 14 of 28 to-dos done: Area C: lager cellars, Area B: bottling house yard, Finds and 2 more

  • Message Board

    5 posts, the newest “Site tours: 88 of 100 places booked”

  • Docs & FilesSite photos

    9 pictures

  • Check-ins

    Asks “Which contexts did you close today, and what came out of them?”

  • Docs & FilesFinds lab

    9 pictures

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