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This class comprises the collection of archaeologically relevant objects from a land plot. In the context of systematic survey practices, instances of Survey Collection Activity take place at an U4 Surface Survey Unit during and as a part of an U3 Survey Process Unit, usually but not necessarily following an established protocol. This involves the collection of human-made objects such as pottery, metal objects, lithics, etc. but can also include natural objects such as unworked stones without any specific analytical value that are later discovered to be irrelevant and typically discarded from the collection. 

An instance of Survey Collection Activity comes into existence upon the intentional removal of parts of the Survey Surface Unit observable on the ground. The Survey Collection Activity ends when the last artefact or a physical object from the specific Survey Surface Unit or Site has been picked up from the ground, recorded, and typically inserted into a container with the rest of the finds from the same unit or site.

 

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