Fieldwork has gotten a little more challenging now that the humid more summery weather has arrived! Hard to believe a couple weeks ago we were shivering in cold rain and wind. We have now been dealing with humidity and bands of potential thunderstorms which has made planning a little more challenging as we are wrapping things up as we sometimes have to change our plans once the day has started.
Today we have been continuing working on our woodland site, completing more Stage 3 units and starting Stage 2 work. The way things have happened this year we have kind of been working through the stages in reverse order of how they are presented in the Standards and Guidelines. We started with a Stage 4 style, moved to Stage 3 and now added Stage 2 and will sneak in some Stage 1 by the end of the week.
The Stage 2 survey is focused on the adjoining field to where we placed our Stage 3 units. The goal of a Stage 2 is to dig 30cm pits 5cm into subsoil in a grid pattern across the field. This will give us an idea of the presence and location of artifacts and dictate where to place the more intensive Stage 3 units if we were going to continue the exploration of the site at a later date.

We decided to pack up at lunch and reconvene at the Arch Centre to catch up on lab work for the afternoon. The day flew by for me!
