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Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes — 7.1992/​1995

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Nielsen, Viggo; Clemmensen, Niels-Christian: Surveying of ancient field systems: Danish experiences
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VIGGO NIELSEN AND NIELS-CHRISTIAN CLEMMENSEN


Fig. 9. Rough sketch made during reconnoitring (1994) of field systems in Strandskoven (Dondalen) in
the eastern part of Bornholm, cf. Fig. 7. □ Faustskizze, angefertigt bei einer Erkundung (1994) von
Flursystemen in Strandskoven (Dondal) an der Ostkiiste Bornholms (vgl. Abb. 7).

graphic picture of the advances during the
field-work. Hence it is expedient during the
reconnaissance to draw a sketch of the
boundaries and the topography, Fig. 9, as a
memory-aid to be used when at the end of the
day the results of the working sessions have
to be brought up to date. However, by a
newly developed computer system the draw-
ing can be done simultaneously with the sur-
veying, thus enabling immediate graphic con-
trol of the measurements.
Data stored in a field computer are struc-
tured in forms which can be accepted and
understood by most computers. Their struc-
ture encompasses both raw data, e.g. hori-

zontal and vertical angles, oblique distances,
height of instrument and reflector, the num-
ber of the actual points, and text description
(alpha-numerical code), both of them in up to
12 ciphers or letters. For calculation of spatial
co-ordinates of measured points, an EDT-
programe is applied, which can read raw data
and perform a co-ordinate calculation of
c. 1000 points and stations in 20-25 seconds.
Most field computers can compute coordi-
nates synchronously with the measurement
of the point. It is, however, an advantage in-
stead to store raw data, because this makes it
possible to search for data errors. Such errors
are very rare. All surveys refer to the official
 
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