Daily log, Mon 24.Aug.2015

  • Author: Toby C. Wilkinson, Anja Slawisch

First day of preparatory training extensive

Today was the first day of extensive training. AS and TCW set off to Monodendri (Tekağac Burnu) to visit the site of the famous presumed sanctuary, to visit a few other sites recorded in Lohman’s earlier survey work and to test the GPS and data logging capabilities of the Garmin Monterra.

All in all it was a successful day, a number of POIs were created with photographs, including Monodendri itself (Z1000), and some areas of high pottery density (including Archaic sherds, Z1004-1008) on top of the hill above the Fener Caddesi, adjacent to Yenihisar Tepe, some of which was apparently already recognised by Lohmann’s survey.

Some minor issues with the ODK forms were recognised as needing correction (i.e. the ‘Built structure’ POI type was not working; a photo-only POI is needed; some additional simplicity is required).

AS surveys the view from Monodendri

List of POIs created

  • 1000 to 1008

A minor mishap

The day was marred by a minor kaza with another car upon parking which will need sorting in the morning.