More survey work on Friday. This time around defining the moat in a particular area, and extra points to be added on the roads in and out of the village. Today it's Canada Club Jen, Caitlin, Aew, Michael and Moi doing the surveying work.
Today however things don't go as smoothly as they did on Thursday. It takes us quite some time to calibrate the machine and to actually find two initial points to set the machine up from. Everything seems to be up and running around morning tea, and we are finally able to record a number of points up to lunchtime.
Following lunch we move into the rice fields near the road and moat, as to survey/map the area we weren't able to get to on Thursday. We again have quite some trouble getting our set up points right (pointypointy) and struggle through the afternoon. The last hour we frantically try and get all our points recorded, only to return to headquarters to download these and find there is an 'error' in the file; and therefore we will need to reshoot the same area on Saturday morning...arrgghh..
At dinner Nigel informs us that we will only be working half a day on Saturday, as he has organised for us to have lunch on this floating raft/boat followed by a scoot down the river...very exciting.. Following dinner Jen, the bone girl, gives a lecture on the work she does, and how her work really starts when a burial is found (tagging, identification etc etc). She also does quite some work at the 'bone house' (where the remains are housed), where Angela seems to be based most of the time as well. They are involved in the daily cleaning, recording and assessment of the human bone remains.
See below a short video on our surveying work:
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