Strip map and sample is a method of archaeological excavation applied in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
to preserve archaeological remains by record in the face of development threat. It involves machine stripping of an area, plotting observed features onto a
site planAn archaeological plan in an archaeological excavation, is a drawn record of features in the horizontal plane.- Overview :Archaeological plan can either take the form of...
and then partially excavating those features (
samplingSampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference....
).
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Strip map and sample is a method of archaeological excavation applied in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
to preserve archaeological remains by record in the face of development threat. It involves machine stripping of an area, plotting observed features onto a
site planAn archaeological plan in an archaeological excavation, is a drawn record of features in the horizontal plane.- Overview :Archaeological plan can either take the form of...
and then partially excavating those features (
samplingSampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference....
).
Strip map and sample is undertaken when a site is to be destroyed by development and no satisfactory method of preserving archaeological remains
in situ can be devised or adequate funding and time has not be factored into development project planning to allow for a full archaeological investigation.