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ICL08.24
Season
2008
Narrative

Successfully laid out the new 1ha grid on the east side of the fortress, calling it the Gate Grid in honor of what I believe to be a gate in a lower defensive wall on this side of the hill. Leading up to it are a series of 3 large, walled-in terraced areas that ascend from a sizeable open area I think of as The Amphitheater. This area has a lot of plow lines dating from a time when the locals tried to plant a managed forest here with little success (this according to Gor). The land hasn't been used much since that time, so there is hope that subsurface deposits may yet remain. At any rate, the baseline for this grid runs N-S, but unlike other of my surveys this line runs along the center of the grid. So I generated both left and right offset lines to create the grid, making the numbering system of the stakes a little unusual but it's well documented in notebook sketches. And following the topography of the area, I'm doing N-S transects, so my 0,0 point is in the SW corner of the grid (at point 13). In the afternoon, we complete two data blocks, 1A and 1B in mag file 14sstlmt.wg.