{"id":199,"date":"2013-06-03T18:49:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=199"},"modified":"2013-06-13T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:11:59","slug":"the-devils-in-the-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/06\/03\/the-devils-in-the-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"The devil&#8217;s in the detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Newcastle part of the excavation team met today for a briefing about the dig. We had a good think about where we&#8217;re going to put this year&#8217;s trenches (and why!).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also also just taken delivery of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartington.com\/Literaturepdf\/Datasheets\/MS2-MS3%20DS0020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Bartington MS3<\/a> magnetic susceptibility meter, which we hope to use on site. &#8216;Mag sus&#8217; meters are used to detect burning and other human activities that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartington.com\/Literaturepdf\/Case%20Studies\/MS%20Measurement%20in%20Archaeology.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">change the magnetic properties of a deposit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James and Andy also did a bit of refresher training on Newcastle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoscan-research.co.uk\/page15.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geoscan RM15<\/a> resistivity meter. We hope to do some resistivity survey that will complement our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/category\/geophysics\/\" target=\"_blank\">magnetometer surveys<\/a> in the field.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot going on behind the scenes in the North East. The devil&#8217;s in the detail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Newcastle part of the excavation team met today for a briefing about the dig. We had a good think about where we&#8217;re going to put this year&#8217;s trenches (and why!). We&#8217;ve also also just taken delivery of a Bartington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/06\/03\/the-devils-in-the-detail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2013","category-geophysics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}