Well, I was in the Flinders Petrie patrol of 2nd Ivanhoe (st James own)
Senior Scouts and you know what he did with a walking stick and a business
card!

Iain Stuart

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From: "paul courtney" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Going digital


> And to think I was taught by Richard Atkinson of Stonehenge fame and I
think
> the first person to use resistivity survey in archaeology to plan using a
> cocoa tin with slits and knotted string and how to test for ditches with a
> sledge hammer and stop watch.
>
>
> paul courtney
> Leicester
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Iain Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:13 AM
> Subject: Going digital
>
>
> I must admit to a fondness for the old technology - its easier to get lead
> in my pencil than fixing a GPS! It also comes with a rubber (eraser) which
> prevents mistakes. Consider the amount of batteries you have to carry
these
> days. As for those aerials for the Trimble GPS's, not wonder they don't
work
> in wooded areas - the aerials must get stuck in the trees!
>
> Sadly, the old dumpy levels and plane tables (alidades) are now antique
> tools available at premium prices. No doubt the luggable computers
(Kaypros
> and the like) are about to become antiques as well.
>
> On the positive side I was hoping I could go fairly paperless, has anyone
> else tried to juggle cameras, maps and recording sheets in high wind and
had
> to go chasing site records down a hill? If I could only tick a few boxes,
> get a grid ref and a digital photo I could go back to the office and
> download everything into a report and not even think about it.
>
> HLA uses a spiffy Garmin etrex which seems to work as well as a Trimble
> (especially now that SA is turned off). The positive side is that you can
> use it to track your route, which if you are geographically embarrassed as
I
> was on Thursday pm, you can plot where you have been. In my case turns out
> to be where I wanted to be (which begs the question of where the route
> markers were). This is very helpful when the map is out of date.
>
> You should also check that the GPS supports the national mapping grids
which
> some don't.
>
> yours
>
> Iain Stuart
>
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