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Soil flotation tank
Siraf-style soil flotation machine at about real size: open 580 mm steel drum with rolling hoops on an angle-iron stand with cross bracing, water surface with floating flot, a sloping overflow spout with its water stream falling into a fine-mesh flot sieve on a bucket, a pressurised inlet with gate valve, handwheel and pressure gauge, a garden hose across the ground and a ball-valve drain tap. Material controls: drum paint, stainless steel, rubber, water; fieldReady, weathered and orangeDrum presets.
Open in Studio- Kit
- Archaeology fieldwork
- Category
- prop
- Triangles
- 3,396 (budget 4,200)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
- Price
- Free
- Size
- 2.498413 × 1.405 × 0.845 m
- Fits
- archaeology, excavation, fieldwork, outdoor, education, scene
- Tags
- archaeology, excavation, fieldwork, flotation, archaeobotany, soil sampling, sieve, CC0
Knobs
5 parameters you can change in Studio before export.
| Knob | Label | Type | Default | Choices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
scale | Overall scale | number | 1 | — |
drumPaint | Drum paint | color | #2f68a0 | — |
stainlessSteel | Stainless steel and stand | color | #aab4b6 | — |
rubber | Rubber hose and seals | color | #2f5b3a | — |
water | Water | color | #5f8f9a | — |
Presets
- fieldReady: Drum paint
#3474b0; Stainless steel and stand#c7cdcf; Rubber hose and seals#3a7148; Water#6a9ca6 - weathered: Drum paint
#4f6474; Stainless steel and stand#7a8588; Rubber hose and seals#3c4a3e; Water#6f7d6a - orangeDrum: Drum paint
#d9692b; Stainless steel and stand#b8c0c2; Rubber hose and seals#2b2f31; Water#5f8f9a
More in this kit
- Archaeologist trowel
- Finds collection bag
- Survey boundary flag
- Excavation context clipboard
- Detailing brush
- Soil detail scoop
- Dustpan and brush
- Camera field tripod
- Excavation grid ropes
- Excavation pick
- Field magnifier
- Field notebook
- Finds sorting tray
- Fine-mesh sample sieve
- Folding measuring rule
- Survey grade rod
- Hand soil auger
- Hand broom
- String line level
- Margin trowel
- Masonry chisel
- Excavation mattock
- Nested field sieves
- North arrow marker
- Excavation photo board
- Photo north arrow
- Photo scale bar
- Plumb bob
- Pointing trowel
- Round point shovel
- Soil sample scoop
- Field sample tags
- Finds wash tray
- Sediment bucket
- Archaeology shaker screen
- Field documentation camera
- Soft finds brush
- Soil core sampler
- Soil profile knife
- Finds sorting pan
- Specimen jar rack
- Square point shovel
- Survey compass
- Survey stake
- Field tape measure
- Survey total station
- Trenching spade
- Water screening frame
- Wire cleaning brush