[Patina] Re: Excavations at Chester

[Enrico Costanza]

Thank you Tom. This information is really useful.

If you are going there anyway, I guess there is not much extra cost in 
you taking the phones with you.. worse case they won't get used.

However, do we need wifi / 3g?

Mike, what do you think?

Enrico

On 08/10/2012 12:06, Frankland T. wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I had an interesting couple of days last week at Chester, so this is 
> just a quick email to let you know what's happening there and help 
> plan a trial of PoN accordingly. The site is probably best described 
> as 'disappointing', many of the things that the archaeologists were 
> hoping to find based on the results of geophysics just haven't 
> emerged. There is still archaeology on the site, but it is mainly 
> modern and relates to a railway line that used to pass through the 
> site. This means they expect to be finished on the site in around two 
> weeks, and when I arrived on site they were discussing shortening the 
> excavators contracts.
>
> This also means that the excavation might never be put into ARK, as 
> L-P only use it on sites where they have filled out 100 or more 
> context sheets. At the time of my visit, they were up to about 40. The 
> lack of interesting things coming out of the ground also means that 
> there was nothing in particular that stood out as being suitable to 
> record using PoN. There was however interest in making audio notes, 
> and the director told me he often uses his iPhone for making audio 
> recordings of his thoughts while working.
>
> I would suggest that the site is probably more relaxed than a normal 
> commercial site, and although not a great deal of exciting archaeology 
> is being found, this might make it a good place to deploy something, 
> as there is more chance the archaeologists would have the time to 
> learn to use it and to engage with it. On the other hand, there is 
> limited recording happening, so if lots of data is required, this 
> might not be the place. Due to the uncertain nature of the dig, the 
> director recommends that I go back this week, possibly Thursday and 
> Friday again, so I am happy to do this and take PoN with me depending 
> upon whether you feel it is worth it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom.
>
> --
>
> Tom Frankland
>
> PhD Researcher
>
> Archaeological Computing Research Group
>
> University of Southampton
>
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Dr Enrico Costanza
Lecturer, Agents, Interaction, Complexity Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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