Dani János - Hajdú Zsigmond - Nagy Emese Gyöngyvér szerk.: MÓMOSZ I. (Debrecen, 2001)

Nagy Emese Gyöngyvér: Az M3-as autópálya 6. lelőhelyének (Polgár-Csőszhalom dűlő) dokumentációja 1995-1997

NAGY EMESE GYÖNGYVÉR 2. Diretc spatial information data of archeological objects - draft drawing in a map proportionate with the 20 x 20 square - data required for identifying the form that an object occupies in space (application of A, A*, B, and C auxiliary points) 3. Vertical section of strata conditions and excavated units - adoption of the method applied at the English urban excavations 4. Traditional form of description The system based on the Harris Matrix — although with some modifications — can be very well used at all kinds of excavations. It is flexible, conformable, and changeable. Still, some of the phenomena experienced at excavations are not codable, which means that the information describing the actual situation can sometimes be stored only in the form of a written text. For this purpose, we have introduced the rubric Notes & Comments, which could not be omitted even in the system expressed through figures that was getting simpler and simpler. The stratigraphie book contains a number of stapled stratigraphie sheets. For the sake of easier handling, we include data on 200 objects (but a lot more, perhaps twice this number, of sheets) in such a book. We indicate two different figures on the stratigraphie sheets: one of them is the number of the object (e. g. fireplace, pit, grave, etc.) from 1 through n, while the other sequence of figures also runs from 1 through n, but this is the stratigraphie figure. While in the case of a grave, this latter is just to mark it (i.e. the number of the object is increased by one), in the case of pile-dwellings, it has an identifying function. The pile-dwelling is an object all by itself and, for this reason, it receives a number, but we also will have to be able to identify the postholes later, so each posthole receives a new number. This is the stratigraphie figure. The stratigraphie figure is useful even in the case of a pit, because it allows for several units to be separated within the same object. The two figures also fulfill other functions: they simplify and code the artifact or object to be identified. On the basis of the two figures, all information becomes immediately retrievable when processed by computers. Also, when taking an inventory, no long texts are going to be necessary to be written on a small piece of shard but the above two and the site number. We also keep an excavation journal, which differs from the traditional ones only in the respect that it does not contain drafts and drawings since those are included in the stratigraphie book. So the journal and the stratigraphie book are supposed to be used together, since they complement each other. In this brief overview, I only wished to describe the new methods we curently use. I sincerely hope that we could provide you with some ideas that will prove to be applicable at the archeological excavations in the future, as they are fit for the work of archeologists dealing with any time period. NAGY EMESE GYÖNGYVÉR DÉRI MÚZEUM 4026 DEBRECEN DÉRI TÉR 1.