Artefact Journal…
How to create the all-important Reference Number…
The Artefact Journal, whether it is with or without the diary, is a book, diary, log or anything that it can possibly be used for… Its purpose is to record & set down for prosperity a summary of Artefacts that has been found whilst out in the field… The field is literally any place where an Artefact, Fossil, Bottle, River Find, etc-etc came from… So a field could be a beach, stream, river foreshore or the proverbial field…
Any item can be recorded into the spaces available as each and every artefact that needs to be recorded will receive its own unique number ready to to have an ID later…
The sequence of numbers for the ref number is a straight forward system, which changes for every Block entry on every page, depending on the book you have purchased the blocks vary from seventeen upwards, please remember that this is the most important piece of information, so a reference number must be wrote down correctly, and is relevent to every Journal…
Being such an important number, this is a simple traffic light system of three numbers… Red, Amber & Green
Shown below is an example of how the reference number was written up for this coin…
Shown here is a roman coin of Tiberiuis AD 14-37, this was found on a dig locally, and before we give it a C.T.C. we must first give it the all important “Reference Number” – this ref.no. is a three-part number, which is important, because no matter where the artefact is stored as long as the ticket and ref. no. stay with the coin, it allows you to trace the artefact back to Artefact Journal & its find spot, and the day it was found…
The above coin is being entered into the Artefact Journal of –
Volume- 1 – with the Dig Number, entered on both the Artefact page & the Field Diary page which was pages- 12 – then it is entered into the block number- [ third Block down ] – C
All important numbers start with the volume of the book… 1.
The second number is the dig number… 12.
The third and final part of the reference number is made up of the block number the artefact was written in…in the case of the Roman coin, it was block number… c [-the third one down-]
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