{"id":383,"date":"2012-10-02T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/portusproject\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2012-10-02T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:04:25","slug":"topographic-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2012\/10\/02\/topographic-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Topographic survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/files\/2012\/10\/steve1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-1900 alignright\" title=\"steve1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portusproject.org\/files\/2012\/10\/steve1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Following the start of the new season of excavation at the Palazzo Imperiale, being undertaken together with a restoration project, we have started planning all the walls and floor surfaces. A few months back I undertook a photogrammetric survey of all the standing walls that will be restored in the area, and am now fixing these into the site plan. Yesterday we cleaned USM11043 and began a detailed survey of the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the start of the new season of excavation at the Palazzo Imperiale, being undertaken together with a restoration project, we have started planning all the walls and floor surfaces. 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