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A clipboard with a graphite drawing of soil layers rests in front of a rocky excavation profile, with a black-and-white segmented scale standing at the left…

Recording the Layers

A close square photograph of an excavation section, a black-and-white scale, and a clipboard bearing an unlabelled drawing of the soil layers.

archaeological excavationsoil profilestratified earthsegmented scaleclipboardgraphite drawingwarm sunlight
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Prompt

Square 1:1 documentary photograph of archaeological layer recording, composed as a quiet, tightly cropped still life at an excavation trench. An exposed vertical soil section fills the upper two-thirds, showing distinct ochre, pale sandy and dark brown strata.

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