Sorry for the delay. The first week is under our belts and I hope that in the future all of the team members will blog about their experiences on the dig. As for now its just be Brent Fortenberry, a PhD Student from Boston University USA.
This year our work in the town of St. George's focuses on three areas in and around St. Peter's Church. Our first job was to survey all the memorials in and around St. Peter's. In 2004 two historians conducted a survey of all the inscriptions. They did not however plot each memorial in space. So last week the team went memorial to memorial, gravestone to gravestone, plotting each by hand in space. Next week we will likely then take those plans and place them into a digital format. In addition to this work we are going back and plotting in the memorials and gravestone that have no inscriptions (either they have worn away or never existed at all).
Starting this week is our archaeology camp more to come and on a more regular basis.
Cheers,
brf
1 comment:
Hi, brf,
it would be useful to know a bit about St Peter's: Anglican? When est.? Still active?
Goals of the field season? Who's on the team?
What's the diff btw surveying by hand and using some sort of gps device or the like?
mcb
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