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distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 3rd July 2012
So, say, a ditch full of Roman pottery under a 1960s concrete floor may in fact date from the 1970s? Should make report writing more entertaining anyway
distinctive regional traditions - P Prentice - 3rd July 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:...whereas the rest of us would like to know the actual relationship
on simple sites, but anywhere that has more than a couple of recuts its all jackanory
distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 3rd July 2012
If ditch A with 98 recuts all full of rocks is crossing ditch B (with a nice stone-free silt fill) at right angles, it should still be pretty obvious what the relationship is, or did all you guys miss that day on your Uni training dig?. I've done an urban site with 6' of strat consisting entirely of intercutting visually identical pit fills where we had to work it all out from the tipping angle of the egg shell (thank *** they liked their eggs in the medieval period). Unit would have saved months and tens of thousands in budget with one of his slots and a context sheet saying 'brown layer with some egg shell overlying natural, oh and a few bits of pot'....
distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 3rd July 2012
P Prentice Wrote:on simple sites, but anywhere that has more than a couple of recuts its all jackanory
on the other hand the results can be pretty amazing when you bother sorting it all out - little things like eg when a major Roman road was built, cuts through all the c*** in the literature. Helps having a big and well-dateable finds assemblage of course (good stuff, samian in large quantities, especially the signed stuff) and specialists who can be bothered to sort out all the residuality issues etc, but sorting out the strat in the first place definitely helps, you should try it one day
distinctive regional traditions - Sith - 4th July 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:Unit would have saved months and tens of thousands in budget with one of his slots and a context sheet saying 'brown layer with some egg shell overlying natural, oh and a few bits of pot'....
At least he filled in the context sheet.
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 4th July 2012
so tens of thousands spent on intercutting visually identical medieval pit fills where we had to work it all out from the tipping angle of the egg shell. Sounds like a council site and a council unit and council curators and public money to produce a pretty pointless archive in a council museum -prey tell what did the evaluation suggest that you would find and what was the tender for
distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 4th July 2012
The eval suggested that there would be just that and it was for a shopping centre (which has now been open for 20 years) - but then that was back in the days when things still got dug properly
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 4th July 2012
dug properly - what does that mean actualy
distinctive regional traditions - Dinosaur - 4th July 2012
100% of the archaeology within the area, by hand, by people who actually know what they're doing :face-stir:
distinctive regional traditions - Unitof1 - 4th July 2012
100% by hand 6' thick 10s of thousands visually identical medieval pit fills and egg shells
you have got to tell us where we can find a report of this site I particularly like the 10s of thousands bit. I do think that in archaeology we should pass around details of which clients are particularly gullible possibly it was the shopping centre rather than the out of town hypermarket which drew out the readies. The hypermarket people have got a tendancy now adays to bus in out of towners to do the dirty work