A hot and partly cloudy day today as we began surveying the Lusagyugh survey quadrant (Ar/Lu). There, I worked with Ian, Amy, and Salpi on E-W transects, moving south from the Tsaghkunyats foothills towards the Kasakh and the valley floor. At the end of the day we collected additional Aparani Berd aerial imagery with the Phantom 2 drone.
Our first two transects, the closest to Lusagyugh village, identified two burial clusters (ICL15.05 and 06) on the slope northwest of Lusagyugh. The mounded and eroding rock burials resemble many of the ones recorded in the Aparan survey quadrant, just across the Tsaghkunyats, east of the M3 highway. Other transects on the flatter areas to the south were less resultative.
There is a lot of water here, draining out of Tsaghkunyats springs, as we found in the nearby Aparan landscape. Quite marshy. ICL15.06 extends to the northern edge of the village and we will record it in total at a later date.
Difficulty with drone control software cut our data collection short at Aparani Berd.