First day on site

We arrived on site today and set up the dig house. Simon gave his traditional tour of the site and excavation area. The excavation area is already looking amazing, with Fabrizio and his team having been busy preparing the ground.

The geophysics team will be busy, in particular looking at the Imperial Palace via Ground Penetrating Radar. We have a good coverage of this area with magnetometry and some resistivity, and we are also in the midst of processing the results of an extensive Electrical Resistance Tomography survey completed in May. So, together with the GPR, we should have a three-dimensional model – much like a CAT scan – of the buried archaeology. First we need to find the soldering iron as the power connector for the GPR has snapped in transit!