Archaeological Methods

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What is a contour plan?
A geographical represention of the land
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What does a random survey indicate?
The likeliness of excavating archaeological finds
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What is a base grid and why is it useful?
The division of a map of a particular region, into squares. It is useful because it is a simple method for field-walkers to detect an archaeological site
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Why is geophysical surveying used?
Because it can suggest positions of feature of buried sites without excavation
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What is offset and triangulation method used for?
The use of tapes and measurements to transfer points of finds in trenches to plans through illustration
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What are box trenches?
Trenches dug horizontally to the land, which allow sampling and can be easily extebnded
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What does a random survey indicate?

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What is a base grid and why is it useful?

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Why is geophysical surveying used?

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What is offset and triangulation method used for?

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