Post-excavation work is well under way on the 100 Minories
excavation dataset. The last of the finds are all being washed and the samples
processed ready to go off to the specialists to prepare their reports, however
I've been busy 'sub-grouping' the contexts, which is a job that involves being
in the warm and dry. Perfect for this time of year.
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| The MoLAS Archaeological Site Manual -still the definitive work for on-site recording, but what do you do with the records? |
We excavated and recorded several thousand individual
contexts on the 100 Minories site, each context a separate 'event' in the archaeological
sequence, each with a set of records and each potentially with associated
artefacts and environmental material. Understanding all these thousands of contexts
is a daunting task, so we aggregate the contexts into a series of larger
groupings, working from context level through 'Sub-groups', 'Groups' and
finally to the level of landscape 'Land-use' units like Buildings, Open Areas
and Waterfronts.
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