Home  |  Accessibility  |  Contact  Us  |  Site Map
Services  |  Nevis  |  News  |  Finds  |  Bristol Archaeology: Post-Excavation

Bristol Archaeology: Post-Excavation

Post­Excavation

Once a site has finished, a great deal of analysis has to take place to enable us to produce a report. Sometimes we produce only a report for the client or developer who funded the work, but sometimes we publish our sites more widely, for example in Bristol and Avon Archaeology or other periodicals.

The site paperwork has to be collated, the finds cleaned and identified by specialists, and the evidence from soil samples examined. The site drawings will be used together with the finds dating and the relationships information to produce phase plans, so that we can show what the site was like at any given period during its life. The finds and soil samples help to build a picture of the use and occupation of the site.

Survey data is used to produce accurate location plans, and many of the finds are drawn to scale or photographed.

Glazed 15th-century floor tiles

Keynsham - Kevin Potter and Chris Reece excavating the remains of a 17th-century house

Keynsham - Rachel Heaton and Kevin Potter planning a cobbled surface that may be Roman

Page updated: January 2nd, 2005

All material © copyright BaRAS 2004-2007. All rights reserved.
Bristol and Region Archaeological Services, St Nicholas Church, St Nicholas Street, Bristol BS1 1UE
Tel: (0117) 903 9010 Fax: (0117) 903 9011 e-mail: [email protected]