Placeholder copy. Weather cut the survey short, but not before mapping out the rest of the immediate area with the tape and compass. The notes from today are rougher than I would like -- transcribed properly once home, with the sketches redrawn from memory where the rain had made the field notebook illegible.

Placeholder copy. Still unclear whether this is a single dispersal event or an accumulation over a much longer period. The next visit should focus on depth measurements rather than further collection.

Placeholder copy. A quieter visit. Spent most of the time on measurement rather than collection, which felt like the right call after the last entry. Depth readings are logged separately and will be cross-referenced with the site map once the Archive entry is drafted.

Placeholder copy. Closing thought for the week: the pattern here resists a tidy explanation, and that is probably fine for now.