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My professor told me to always grid a site with string before digging, and I thought it was a waste of time.
We were working a small site in central Ohio last summer, mapping out what we thought was just a few scattered postholes. I wanted to just start troweling, but my old field school instructor's voice in my head made me set up a 2-meter grid first. After a week, we saw the postholes weren't random at all; they formed a perfect circular pattern for a structure we'd have totally missed. Has anyone else had a basic piece of advice from training completely save a dig later on?
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noahhernandez1mo ago
Oh man, that's a great story. I read a blog post once where a team almost missed a whole burial site because they skipped the grid. That basic stuff really does matter.
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derek_burns1mo ago
Yeah, @noahhernandez, basics save the whole job.
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