Skills developed at the Portus Field School
During the 2015 field season you will be given training in the following core field skills, and we hope also given the opportunity to try a number of the advanced skills. Over the coming weeks we will provide pointers to learning more about each of these. The links allow you to search this website for related content (including the expertise of your colleagues on the Portus Field School) and to find posts with relevant tags.
You can help your colleagues by adding links to the Discussion Posts with appropriate tags e.g. if you find a good site about sediment analysis add a link to a new post and the tag “sediments”. You can also use tools like scoop.it and suggest links for the Portus Project to curate.
| Core Skills |
| Trowel |
| Shovel and pick |
| Layout |
| Profiles |
| Sediments |
| Artefact recognition |
| Transects |
| Mapping (awareness of mapping approaches and data required) |
| Basic data processing – including photograph management |
| Context sheets |
| Deposit recording |
| Section drawing |
| Feature drawing |
| Planning |
| Global positioning systems (GPS) use |
| Total station (TS) use |
| Site Photography |
| RTI (imaging) |
| Gigapan |
| Photogrammetry (search: Photogrammetry)(tag: Photogrammetry) |
| Environmental processing |
| Finds processing |
| Basic report preparation – documentation of inventory and excavation results |
| Advanced/ Optional Skills (available subject to other factors) |
| Excavating (burials) |
| Building survey |
| Finds drawing |
| Finds photography |
| Survey processing (computer) |
| Geophysical survey and processing (computer) |
| Photogrammetric processing (computer) |
| Laser scanning and processing (computer) |
| Computerising artefact records |
| ARK data entry (computer) |
| Digitising plans/ sections (computer) |
| Computer Graphic Modelling (computer) |
| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) use (computer) |
| Advanced environmental processing |