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Artefact Journal & Field Diary…
Welcome to the future of recording your finds…
Let me give you a brief introduction to the Artefact Journal, the future of recording your finds, along with your own individual perspective being written into the Field Diary, this could be the sights and sounds you encounter along the way, or literally anything that you think off, because everything that goes into the mix of making these books, helps create a unique & personal Journey…
If as they say, knowledge is the key to power, then the Artefact Journal & Field Diary will give you that knowledge in a reflective history at your fingertips for many years to come, as you can keep track of the artefacts from different fields, farms, dig sites rally’s, private invites etc…
I personally will not write a book of national importance, & although you or I might not set the world alight with our literary skills, what we can offer though is a historical insight into the locality we dig, i believe that we will be writing a book of local interest & significance’s, about the highs and lows of being out in the field, as you find another artefact, whether it’s broken or whole, as your story unfolds about every item you find, it is only one more piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle…
A jigsaw is so vast, that in our lifetime we will never complete the entire picture, so whether it is local permission or from further afield, at a rally, discarded items, a treasured item lost, genuine losses, or deliberately buried items, these all start to paint the picture of how our ancestors worked, played and even fought over our search sites…
I have built the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, a lot different to all the other books out there on the same subject, to make any book functional it has to be designed to work…
All of the same features of the previous versions of the Artefact Journal & Field Diary are featured here, the front & back covers are 320 high gloss, which is protected with a “wipe clean” clear acetate sheet, to keep all but the worst of them sticky fingerprints out…
One of the major changes outside has been to change the plastic coil, this has been changed back to the “wiro metal coil” although the plastic coil worked brilliant, we felt this workbook “worked” better with the metal coil, as the metal coil closes “better by design onto itself” (-whereas the plastic coil, when attached to the pages, “appeared” to be able to slip off the paper… { only time will tell, we might revert back }-)
Although the plastic coil opens and closes quietly the metal coil is a bit noisier, but both the plastic and metal coils allow for the workbook to function as it should when in use, as a workbook the Artefact Journal & Field Diary can be opened out, with both pages facing you perfectly flat, whereas if the book was “perfectly bound” you would need to break its spine, to be able to get the book to lie flat enough to write in…
Inside the Artefact Journal & Field Diary…
On the inside of the front cover, we have a section for your personal information with the volume, previous volume, P.A.S. name & number with your association name and number, before a short welcome note from us…
Contact Page
We then come to the first of the two hundred pages, this is a contact page designed to keep track of the most important numbers and details we usually just abbreviate, or jot down, & then promptly lose or cannot remember, all of the relevant information can be inserted, as a handy reminder…
What’s on the Artefact Journal Page…
When we turn the contacts page over, we come to the first of eighty-four Artefact Journal & Field Diary pages, being a two-page system, the Artefact Journal page is on your left-hand side, where you can enter upwards of thirty-one artefact entries per dig, should you be lucky and need more artefact entry’s, there is a stand-alone artefact page which can be connected to the days dig, with that page having an additional thirty entry’s…
AI = Artefact Identifier…
On the top row of blocks, in the shaded area is where each entry is identified, the first one on the left-hand side of the journal page is AI, with a series of lowercase letters followed by numbers one-to-five underneath, these numbers are nothing special, they are there because of the length of numbers are small, (- if we used 1-to-31 the Ref-No starts to get bigger, so this way the Ref.-No. remains small…-)
Site Reference…
Next is site ref, this is a personal choice of map reference, what-3-words, visual, etc… it really is a personal choice, some people will use it whilst others won’t…
Artefacts…
Simply write your own description into this section, of the artefact that has been found…
Ref. No.
Important, if you want to track an artefact back to the dig page…
C.T.C.
Important, to track an artefact to the storage area, whereas the Ref.-No. will get you back to the Dig Page…
Again, if you intend to display, store, or work with your artefacts, and you need to trace the artefact from the dig page, to storage, then this is an important section, and you need to write this section in, as above it is a simple three letter or number Reference, this is created by entering the Cabinet Number, tray number and cell all separated by a full stop (- 4.1.#. will lead you to cabinet 4, Tray 1, and the cell denoted with a # -)
Remember this Artefact Journal & Field Diary, is the first stepping stone of keeping track of your finds, without the pressure of having to record other data like weight, composition, height, thickness etc… all of that can be done later, if you want too, most of us know brass from bronze, gold or silver, so should you wish too, the academically side of Artefacts can be done at a later date, no perfect identification needs to apply here, in this book, you can just record the artefact, with identification coming later…
As an example, you have found a brass ring, there is plenty of space to write into the Artefact Block, brass ring, with markings, then a week later, after it has been positively ID, put beside it, bronze ring mid to late Roman, with a Che-Ro sign, then pop an abbreviated date beside that of when it was ID, & on your field ticket you can write your positive ID, for future reference…
For those wishing to store or display their artefacts, we have successfully overcome the problem of keeping a track of the artefacts, without long or tiresome equations, and more than enough guessing games, as with the main Ref. No. you can use the three-letter codes for each artefact, depending on what you want to do with the find, these simple references never get long & allow for the artefacts to be stored or displayed with a quick reference back to the day it was found, where it was found, which field it was in, with a place for either map numbers, what three words or your own description, plus if you fill in the diary section you can see which detector, coil, ground conditions etc… was used for that day’s particular hunt…
When you get home, put the kettle on & get your kit stowed, with the kettle boiling, & your cup prepared, you can get out the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, along with your finds, & as you go through them you can assign three letters, numbers or symbols, straight into the book from the field, & into the book, to storage, & back again…
If you look after your coins, you will be familiar with the Coin Tickets, that accompany these coins on their journey, well the same as the field diary, we have hijacked these coin tickets & renamed them, we now know them as Field Tickets, and whereas the coin tickets serve a purpose of identification & storage of the coin, the Field Ticket carries identification one side & all of the important tracking Reference Numbers on the reverse, as long as the Field Ticket stays with the artefact, then field to the cabinet and back again is possible… Please be aware that these coin tickets need to be acid-free, a lot of these are sold on various sites, but sometimes the cost of postage is quite expensive, whereas I now get mine from “The Hammered Corner” this site is a Facebook site and is easily found, with a very cost-effective set of tickets in various sizes & free postage…
As you open the book to your first dig page, you will see that the Artefact Journal is placed on your left-hand side, whilst the Field Diary is on the right-hand side, neither have a page number, but both pages have a dig number, put beside this with everything in view and placed in order ready for you to enter the details for that particular day’s hunt…
Everything that goes into the mix of making each of these books, helps create a unique & personal Journey…
This Artefact Journal and Field Diary can be a basic recording system, which in itself is simple or you can incorporate some or all of the features within this book, to keep track of your movements, fields, rallies, and whereabouts you store your finds, with everything laid out for an easy to use & uncomplicated book…
Artefact Journal & Field Diary…
Welcome to the future of recording your finds…
Let me give you a brief introduction to the Artefact Journal, the future of recording your finds, along with your own individual perspective of the sights and sounds you encounter along the way, being written into the Field Diary, and everything that goes into the mix of making these books, helps create a unique & personal Journey…
If as they say, knowledge is the key to power, then the Artefact Journal & Field Diary will give you that knowledge in a reflective history at your fingertips for many years to come, as you can keep track of the artefacts from different fields, farms, dig sites rally’s, private invites etc…
I personally will not write a book of national importance, & although you or I might not set the world alight with our literary skills, what we can offer though is an historical insight in to the locality we dig , i believe that we will be writing a book of local interest & significance’s, for historians, archaeologists, & local societies of the future, in fact anyone who has an interest in history or social history will find these books a preverbal gold mine, it’s a story your telling about the highs and lows of being out in the field, as you find another artefact, whether its broken or whole, as your story unfolds about every item you find, it is only one more piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle…
A jigsaw so vast, that in our lifetime we will never complete the entire picture, so whether it is local permission or from further afield, at a rally, discarded items, a treasured item lost, genuine losses, or deliberately buried items, these all start to paint the picture of how our ancestors worked, played and even fought over our search sites…
What’s on the Outside of the Artefact Journal & Field Diary…
Before we get inside this workbook, let’s have a look outside first, we have built the Artefact Journal & Field Diary a lot different to all the other books out there on the same subject, to make any book functional it has to be designed to work…
All of the same features of the previous versions of the Artefact Journal & Field Diary are featured here, the front & back covers are 320 high gloss, which is protected with a “wipe clean” clear acetate sheet, to keep all but the stickiest of fingers…
Although the plastic coil opens and closes quietly the metal coil is a bit noisier, but both the plastic and metal coils allow for the workbook to function as it should when in use, as a workbook the Artefact Journal & Field Diary can be opened out, with both pages facing you perfectly flat, whereas if the book was “perfectly bound” you would need to break its spine, to be able to get the book to lie flat enough to write in…
Inside the Artefact Journal & Field Diary…
On the inside of the front cover, we have a section for your personal information with the volume, previous volume, P.A.S. name & number with your association name and number, before a short welcome note from us…
Contact Page
We then come to the first of the two hundred pages, this is a contact page designed to keep a track on the most important numbers and details we usually just abbreviate or jot down, & then promptly lose or cannot remember, all of the relevant information can be inserted, as a handy reminder…
Artefact Journal…
When we turn the contacts page over, we come to the first of eighty-four Artefact Journal & Field Diary pages, being a two page system, the Artefact Journal page is on your left-hand side, where you can enter upwards of thirty-one artefact entries per dig, should you be lucky and need more artefact entry’s, there is a stand-alone artefact page which can be connected to the days dig, with that page having an additional thirty entry’s…
AI = Artefact Identifier…
On the top row of blocks, in the shaded area is where each entry is identified, the first one on the left hand side of the journal page is AI, with a series of lower case letters followed by numbers one-to-five underneath, these numbers are nothing special, they are there because of the length of numbers are small, (- if we used 1-to-31 the Ref-No starts to get bigger, so this way the Ref.-No. remains small…-)
Site Reference…
Next is site ref, this is a personal choice of map reference, what-3-words, visual, etc… it really is a personal choice, some people will use it whilst others won’t…
Artefacts
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developed over the years, from a single page in a school notebook into a two-page recording system, of the day’s events…
The book itself, started out as a simple notebook, purloined from comprehensive school, before morphing into helpful data on a printed sheet, bashed out on a borrowed typewriter, then it developed into a single page Field Diary…
With the advent of the personal computer & word processor in the mid to late eighties, it was about this time the main stay of the Field Diary was in place, with battery count, time out, location etc…
Then by the mid-nineties & with the advancement of metal detectors, & better and easier site research the main recording systems where becoming swamped with the days finds and so the recording side had to grow to accommodate the influx of finds, we found the easiest way for this was to turn the Field Diary into the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, via a loose leaf A4 Ring Binder, which it has remained so until we decided to shrink it back down in 2017, while retaining everything at your fingertips…
Also the main criteria was to keep the idea of recording yourself, & the artefacts without losing sight of the importance of that this is a hobby, so with that we kept it to the simple idea of something that can take less than five minutes to complete when you get home, or if you store & care for your artefacts then it can take as long as you want, the Artefact Journal & Field Diary can be put down and picked up, time and time again on the same pages without losing track of the previous entry’s, making the book work for you, not you trying to fathom out where you left off…
Remember this Artefact Journal & Field Diary, is the first stepping stone of keeping track of your finds, without the pressure of having to record other data like weight, composition, height, thickness etc… all of that can be done later, if you want too, most of us know brass from bronze, gold or silver, so should you wish too, the academically side of Artefacts can be done at a later date, no perfect identification needs to apply here, in this book, you can just record the artefact, with identification coming later…
As an example, you have found a brass ring, there is plenty of space to write into the Artefact Block, brass ring, with markings, then a week later, after it has been positively ID, put beside it, bronze ring mid to late Roman, with a Che-Ro sign, then pop an abbreviated date beside that of when it was ID, & on your field ticket you can write your positive ID, for future reference…
For those wishing to store or display their artefacts, we have successfully overcome the problem of keeping a track on the artefacts, without a long or tiresome equations, and more than enough guessing games, as with the main Ref. No. you can use the three letter codes for each artefact, depending on what you want to do with the find, these simple references never get long & allows for the artefacts to be stored or displayed with a quick reference back to the day it was found, where it was found, which field it was in, with a place for either map numbers, what three words or your own description, plus if you fill in the diary section you can see which detector, coil, ground conditions etc… was used for that days particular hunt…
When you get home, put the kettle on & get your kit stowed, with the kettle boiling, & your cup prepared, you can get out the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, along with your finds, & as you go through them you can assign three letters, numbers or symbols, straight into the book from the field, & into the book, to storage, & back again…
If you look after your coins, you will be familiar with the Coin Tickets, that accompany these coins on their journey, well the same as the field diary, we have hijacked these coin tickets & renamed them, we now know them as Field Tickets, and whereas the coin tickets serve a purpose of identification & storage of the coin, lvthe Field Ticket carries identification one side & all of the important tracking Reference Numbers on the reverse, as long as the Field Ticket stays with the artefact, then field to cabinet and back again is possible… Please be aware that these coin tickets need to be acid free, a lot of these are sold on various sites, but sometimes the cost of postage is quite expensive, whereas I now get mine from “The Hammered Corner” this site is a Facebook site and is easily found, with a very cost-effective set of tickets in various sizes & free postage…
As you open the book to your first dig page, you will see that the Artefact Journal is placed on your left-hand side, whilst the Field Diary is on the right-hand side, neither have a page number, but both pages have a dig number, put beside this with everything in view and placed in order ready for you to enter the details for that particular day’s hunt…
Everything that goes into the mix of making each of these books, helps create a unique & personal Journey…
This Artefact Journal and Field Diary can be a basic recording system, which in itself is simple or you can incorporate some or all of the features within this book, to keep track of your movements, fields, rallies, and whereabouts you store your finds, with everything laid out for an easy to use & uncomplicated book…
Artefact Journal & Field Diary…
Welcome to the future of recording your finds…
Let me introduce you to the future of recording your finds, along with the sights and sounds you encounter along the way…
If knowledge is the key to power, then the Artefact Journal & Field Diary is somewhere at the top of the pile, as you can enter & keep track of your Artefacts, no matter what they are, whilst keeping a record of your own day’s events, giving you a reflective history at your fingertips for many years to come, as you can keep track of the artefacts from different fields, farms, dig sites rally’s, private invites etc…
I personally will not write a book of national importance, & although you or I might not set the world alight with our literary skills, what we can offer though is an insight in to the locality we dig , i believe that we will be writing a book of local interest & significant, for historians, archaeologists, & local societies of the future, in fact anyone who has an interest in history or social history will find these books a preverbal gold mine, it’s a story your telling about the highs and lows of being out in the field, as you find another artefact, whether its broken or whole, as your story unfolds about every item you find, it is only one more piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle…
A jigsaw so vast, that in our lifetime we will never complete the entire picture, so whether it is local permission or from further afield, at a rally, discarded items, a treasured item lost, genuine losses, or deliberately buried items, these all start to paint the picture of how our ancestors worked, played and even fought over our search areas…
This Artefact Journal & Field Diary has developed from a single page in a school notebook into a two-page recording system, of the day’s events…
The book itself, started out as a simple notebook, purloined from comprehensive school, before morphing into helpful data on a printed sheet, bashed out on a borrowed typewriter, then it developed into a single page Field Diary…
With the advent of the personal computer & word processor in the mid to late eighties, it was about this time the main stay of the Field Diary was in place, with battery count, time out, location etc…
Then by the mid-nineties & with the advancement of metal detectors, & better and easier site research, the main recording systems were becoming swamped with the days finds and so the recording side had to grow to accommodate the influx of finds, we found the easiest way for this was to turn the Field Diary into the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, via a loose leaf A4 Ring Binder, which it has remained so until we decided to shrink it back down in 2017, while retaining everything at your fingertips…
Also the main criteria were to keep the idea of recording yourself, & the artefacts without losing sight of the importance of, that this is a hobby, so with that we kept it to the simple idea of something that can take less than five minutes to complete when you get home, or if you store & care for your artefacts then it can take as long as you want, the Artefact Journal & Field Diary can be put down and picked up, time and time again on the same pages without losing track of the previous entry’s, making the book work for you, not you trying to fathom out where you left off…
Remember this Artefact Journal & Field Diary, is the first stepping stone of keeping track of your finds, without the pressure of having to record other data like weight, composition, height, thickness etc… all of that can be done later if you want too, most of us know brass from bronze, gold or silver, so should you wish too, the academic side of Artefacts can be done at a later date, no perfect identification needs to apply here, in this book, you just need to record the artefact, with identification coming later…
As an example, you have found a brass ring, there is plenty of space to write into the Artefact Block, brass ring, with markings, then a week later, after it has been positively ID, put beside it, bronze ring mid to late Roman, with a Che-Ro sign, then pop an abbreviated date beside that of when it was ID…
For those wishing to store or display their artefacts, we have successfully overcome the problem of keeping track on the artefacts, without a long or tiresome equation, and more than enough guessing games, as with the main Ref. No. you can use the three letter codes for each artefact, depending on what you want to do with the find, these simple references never get long & allows for the artefacts to be stored or displayed with a quick reference back to the day it was found, where it was found, which field it was in, with a place for either map numbers, what three words or your own description, plus if you fill in the diary section you can see which detector, coil, ground conditions etc… was used for that days particular hunt…
When you get home, put the kettle on & get your kit stowed, with the kettle boiling, & your cup prepared, you can get out the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, along with your finds, & as you go through them you can assign three letters, numbers or symbols, straight into the book from the field, & into the book, to storage, & back again…
If you look after your coins, you will be familiar with the Coin Tickets, that accompany these coins on their journey, well the same as the field diary, we have hijacked these coin tickets & renamed them, we now know them as Field Tickets, and whereas the coin tickets serve a purpose of identification & storage of the coin, lvthe Field Ticket carries identification one side & all of the important tracking Reference Numbers on the reverse, as long as the Field Ticket stays with the artefact, then field to cabinet and back again is possible… Please be aware that these coin tickets need to be acid free, a lot of these are sold on various sites, but sometimes the cost of postage is quite expensive, whereas I now get mine from “The Hammered Corner” this site is a Facebook site and is easily found, with a very cost-effective set of tickets in various sizes & free postage…
As you open the book to your first dig page, you will see that the Artefact Journal is placed on your left-hand side, whilst the Field Diary is on the right-hand side, with everything in view and placed in order ready for you to enter the details for that particular day’s hunt…
This Artefact Journal and Field Diary can be a basic recording system, which in itself is simple or you can incorporate some or all of the features within this book, to keep track of your movements, fields, rallies, and whereabouts you store your finds, with everything laid out for an easy to use & uncomplicated book…
Everything that goes into the mix of making each of these books, helps create a unique & personal Journey…
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