Digital Survey at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate

Digital survey--using GPS equipment to map in sites, features, and even artifacts, is a cost-effective way to produce accurate site maps. There are short courses available in GPS/GIS studies, but I don't know how necessary they are for the field archaeologist. Most short courses are directed to the geology or environmental industry and so are pricey; GIS/GPS background is probably an ace in the hole for incoming archaeologists, but whether at this point it's worth going back to school for it is debatable. The software (ArcGIS) is, with any luck, becoming easier to use.

These archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology are using a total station transit to map features at an archaeological site, Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate.