19th October 2013, 05:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 19th October 2013, 05:56 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
On a section/profile drawing I like to see properly labelled and located end points, an indication of the drawing scale, some suggestion of the attitude (e.g south facing) and the height of the section 'string' relative to OD....not so bothered about fancy shading, stippling etc. And sometimes a small location sketch if profile is one of a series.....keep it simple, but accurate is my policy.
As for recording sheets...the important thing to my mind is that it is relevant to the archaeology being recorded. I was (am) a fan of the Museum of London suite of record sheets for different purposes (timber, masonry, burial sheets etc) based on the principle, that potentially there is far too much data to go onto one single sheet. Have also personally designed sheets for very specific purposes e.g post-medieval cemetery burial location record, Roman bath-house masonry record sheets etc etc, but that fit the general precepts of the MoL single context record system.....I do remember a colleague designing and using a circular drawing template onto the MoL 5m grid plan sheets for use on the shaft excavations for the Docklands Light Railway....
.....currently using a sheet written in Norwegian, designed to replicate the input fields of the Swedish Intrasis GIS recording software. I believe the current versions of the English Heritage recording sheets do the same, but in English...
Postscript: I'd forgotten but now remember, that with a MoL colleague, we designed a context sheet for use in measuring and assessing the contents/state of completeness/significance/potential for further work of the Museum of London archaeology departments huge backlogged sites archive. It helped in making applications for post-ex funding and concentrating resources for many projects that might otherwise still be mouldering in boxes somewhere in Hackney...
As for recording sheets...the important thing to my mind is that it is relevant to the archaeology being recorded. I was (am) a fan of the Museum of London suite of record sheets for different purposes (timber, masonry, burial sheets etc) based on the principle, that potentially there is far too much data to go onto one single sheet. Have also personally designed sheets for very specific purposes e.g post-medieval cemetery burial location record, Roman bath-house masonry record sheets etc etc, but that fit the general precepts of the MoL single context record system.....I do remember a colleague designing and using a circular drawing template onto the MoL 5m grid plan sheets for use on the shaft excavations for the Docklands Light Railway....
.....currently using a sheet written in Norwegian, designed to replicate the input fields of the Swedish Intrasis GIS recording software. I believe the current versions of the English Heritage recording sheets do the same, but in English...
Postscript: I'd forgotten but now remember, that with a MoL colleague, we designed a context sheet for use in measuring and assessing the contents/state of completeness/significance/potential for further work of the Museum of London archaeology departments huge backlogged sites archive. It helped in making applications for post-ex funding and concentrating resources for many projects that might otherwise still be mouldering in boxes somewhere in Hackney...
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