Quiet achiever

Hello all! Just because this blog is seemingly dead, does not mean that work isn’t going on behind the scenes. With a year left on my postdoc project, I am madly trying to get the post-excavation stage of analysis completed. For those who are paying attention,...

Illustration – making magic happen

Back in the dim-dark past the sight of an archaeologist clutching a drawing board, bent double over a planning frame or stringline (generally in the pouring rain/high wind) was a common occurrence. Site planning was a fine art, something which I used to enjoy...

Artefact, artefact, artefact

Much like the unwanted appearance of The Candyman, saying ‘artefact’ on a historic site more than once will summon these nasty critters. Dozens – nay, hundreds – of them will come squirming out of the ground, gnashing their sharp little teeth...

Photogrammetry

Though the site has been mothballed, the archaeology roadshow trundles on. Despite having only been on site for 12 days, we managed to generate a bit of data that has been keeping me busy. One key result has been the processing of our photogrammetry data. This is a...

Survey

Survey brings out strong contradictory feelings within me. On the one hand, my favourite task during an excavation or archaeological survey is capturing the composition of archaeological sites and features graphically in 3D. So much information. So much power. On the...