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DigSchool.org.uk I Engaging cross-curricular learning-enrichment workshops themed around archaeology
Session 19: Report WritingCreating a record for the future
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Key questions
• How to write an interesting, useful report on a test pit excavation
• What information to include and in what order
• How your Dig School learning will help you
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You can write up your report EITHER by filling in the Dig School workbook for this session; OR you can use this to make notesand shape the structure of your report and then create your own report with as much text and as many photos, plans and
drawings as you want.
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The information on the top half of this page could be used to make a separate cover page for your report.
Test pit excavation 1 The Close, Newtown
Dylan Brown
July 2020
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Information to go in here may
come from Dig School sessions:
• ‘Bird’s Eye View’ (Dig School
10) looking at place names (at
kepn.nottingham.ac.uk), old
maps (on Edina Digimap) and
LIDAR;
• ‘Down to Earth’ (Dig School
11) covering Heritage
Gateway and finds.org.uk
• ‘X-ray Vision’ (Dig School 12)
explored how to interpret
features on aerial
photographs
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Information to go in the
‘Location’ section should be on
your test pit excavation record
booklet:
• The Grid Reference (best in
the UK) and eastings and
northings (best for
worldwide) for your test pit
can be found by zooming in
on Edina Digimap or Google
Earth
North
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The methods used to dig the test
pit were covered in
• ‘DIY Dig’ (Dig School 13)
• ‘Safe and Sound’ (Dig School
14)
• The methods used are also
described in test pit excavation
handbook which accompanied
DIY Dig
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Information to go in the ‘Excavation
Results’ section should be on your
test pit excavation record booklet –
listed page by page for each
context.
• ‘Exploring artefacts’ (Dig School
15) will have helped you identify
some commonly-occurring finds
You will have made photographs
and drawings of you finds in:
• Picturing the Past (Dig School
18)
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You will have thought about the
meaning of finds in several Dig
School Sessions:
• ‘Dumpster Dig’ (Dig School
4) explored the meaning of
stuff that’s unintentionally left
behind
• ‘Call my Bluff’ (Dig School 6)
explored some of the uses
made of different objects
• ‘Animal Farm’ looked at what
animal bones can reveal
• ‘What’s the Story’ (Dig
School 16) explored what
finds can tell you about what
was going on in the past
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You will have thought about what
finds from test pit excavations can tell
you about places they came from in
several previous Dig School
sessions:
• ‘Tracing Places’ (Dig School 9)
and ‘Pits in Place’ (Dig School
17) explored what finds can reveal
about how settlements developed,
and how common or unusual
pottery of different dates is;
• ‘Changing Rooms’ (Dig School
2) explored how much evidence
from the past does NOT survive.
• ‘History CSI’ (Dig School 1), ‘A
Thorney Problem’ (Dig School 7)
and ‘What’s the Story’ (Dig
School 16) all gave you the
chance to puzzle out explanations
for things found in archaeological
excavations
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Key questions
• How to write an interesting, useful report on a test pit excavation
• What information to include and in what order
• How your Dig School learning will help you
Session 19: Report WritingCreating a record for the future
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