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Used to dig straight in with a shovel, now I grid everything out first and it saved my whole summer
Three summers back I was helping a buddy survey a farm field outside Lawrence, Kansas, and I just walked the creek bank poking around until I saw something shiny. Found a couple flakes and a broken point that way, felt like a genius. Then a retired KU guy came out with us and lost his mind because I had no idea where anything came from. No depth, no spot on the map, nothing. He said the point was worthless the second I pulled it out of the ground without notes. That stung but he was right. Now I flag out a 2 meter grid with pin flags and twine, shoot every find with a cheap laser level, and log it all in a notebook with the date and GPS numbers. Takes me way longer to cover the same ground, like four hours for a patch I used to walk in 40 minutes. But last month I pulled a Gary point at 22 centimeters down and could actually tell people exactly where it sat in the soil layer. Way more boring, way better. Anyone else here go full grid after getting burned, or do some of you still just wander and hope?
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elizabethg1827d ago
Did that retired guy ever soften up after you started keeping real notes? I had almost the same thing happen at a site in Missouri, and now I run a grid with pin flags too, even though it feels slow some days.
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