Welcome to the bog!

On the 6th of August my new team of fellow diggatiers went not only down to the Lower House, we were sent to survey an outer-building, that had a 20 cm bog instead of a floor. One would imagine how can be an obstacle in the way a survey-hungry archaeologist. We made it somehow, with a lot of mud and even more swearing on my account. It is not easy to have a white hardhat at BK12(the dig site code). Wining about the necessities of life aside it was a pretty good day, except for the bog of course. For all of those unenlightened in the procedure of surveying a building I will now explain it, for those of you that are-just bear with me. First thing we do when we go to the allocated to our team room, structure or building is to asses the risks lurking from behind the wonky old constructions. We do some clearing if necessary, highly needed or even possible. Afterwards every wall possible has been brought into a presentable sight we do a running measurement of the walls- clockwise for interior, anti-clockwise for exteriors. That is where Alex is the master-creating a ground plan of the structures we survey. The camera and tripod are always down on site so photos are in order- more work with the spirit level and we have an even fuller record of the site. What follows that is my job and that is to first sketch the walls- the way rocks were stuck together into a structure, whether or not they are worked, the complexion and presence of mortar and so on. When our work on site is done we go back to the Training room and then I turn my sketches of every elevation into a scaled schematic drawing. The whole process is not all that glamorous and fabulous, however I find it fulfilling and rewarding to stand in the Brynkir house and take care it won't be forgotten. We are all good.