Wearing my researcher’s hat I am logging in spreadsheets all drawings, paintings and sounds, with cross referencing between visual and audio. Towards the end of last season it was suggested that I should also record the archaeological references to my drawings – so that in future it might be possible to link contexts and finds with any drawings that feature them. So a fresh ‘context’ spreadsheet has begun and I am having to go back over four seasons of drawings to bring it up to date…
Many of the drawings that feature contexts will include the people working in them. The archaeologists are now enjoying the prospect of their crouched figures, quite often observed from the rear, being part of this new archive.
The drain whose progress I am following has several context numbers for the various parts of its construction – but may eventually receive one overall context number, which will simplify things. Work around it is developing well and there are hopes for significant change next week.
All news of the drain will no doubt feature on the Ness of Brodgar web site in the Dig Diary.
