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Oh thats a shame.......... - P Prentice - 1st March 2012
and i will still argue that it dont matter which way round you do it as long as it works
Oh thats a shame.......... - Jack - 1st March 2012
Ah but does it work the other way round? If you assume you know the date of something (say a certain type of pottery) before you measure it you will always dismiss those dates that don't agree...........missing the possibility that the accepted date range for that something (pottery) is wrong.
Its like assuming all you ranging rods are 2m long because you think they are and they all seem the same length rather than getting out a tape measure and checking................oops they are all actually 1.9m long.
Oh thats a shame.......... - Ken Denham - 1st March 2012
What we need to remember is our jobs, as field archaeologists. That is to recover as much information as we can, as forensically as we can on site. Interpretation of that information is out in the public domain.
Oh thats a shame.......... - Dinosaur - 1st March 2012
Jack Wrote:Its like assuming all you ranging rods are 2m long because you think they are and they all seem the same length rather than getting out a tape measure and checking................oops they are all actually 1.9m long.
I once worked for a large unit, which shall remain nameless since they're still around, who spent a load of money buying a van-load of second-hand ranging rods to repaint, apparently without noticing they were imperial.....loads of 1.8m ranging rods resulted...doh! :0
Assume you've been suckered into buying the same batch repainted to include the pointy bit?
:face-kiss:
Oh thats a shame.......... - P Prentice - 2nd March 2012
Jack Wrote:Ah but does it work the other way round? If you assume you know the date of something (say a certain type of pottery) before you measure it you will always dismiss those dates that don't agree...........missing the possibility that the accepted date range for that something (pottery) is wrong.
Its like assuming all you ranging rods are 2m long because you think they are and they all seem the same length rather than getting out a tape measure and checking................oops they are all actually 1.9m long.
i think you are chasing your own tail
Oh thats a shame.......... - Sith - 2nd March 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:I once worked for a large unit, which shall remain nameless since they're still around, who spent a load of money buying a van-load of second-hand ranging rods to repaint, apparently without noticing they were imperial.....loads of 1.8m ranging rods resulted...doh!
Did they also invest in a job lot of those special planning frames that measures 1m to the outside? They left you with an 50mm blind spot all the way round that many uninitiated diggers filled by simply expanding what was visible to fit. On the plus side, this must have increased productivity but probably not as much as the mega 5m by 5m frames we once borrowed from some chaps in Baldock.
Oh thats a shame.......... - Dinosaur - 3rd March 2012
Sith Wrote:Did they also invest in a job lot of those special planning frames that measures 1m to the outside? They left you with an 50mm blind spot all the way round that many uninitiated diggers filled by simply expanding what was visible to fit. On the plus side, this must have increased productivity but probably not as much as the mega 5m by 5m frames we once borrowed from some chaps in Baldock.
All the steel planning frames on a job in Scotland in 1981 had been welded-up by the kids in the local borstal - none were square, and all the rectangles varied quite a lot in size...trying to fit the resulting plans together in PX certainly required quite a lot of 'bodging'.....worryingly they were shipped back to the SDD stores at the end of the job, so presumably there are other Scottish sites of the era with slightly suspect plans? :0
Oh thats a shame.......... - Jack - 5th March 2012
P Prentice Wrote:i think you are chasing your own tail
Woof, woof.
More like banging my head against a wall.
I guess its true, you can't teach an old dog new tricks :face-stir:
Oh thats a shame.......... - P Prentice - 5th March 2012
or your grandma to suck eggs
Oh thats a shame.......... - Jack - 6th March 2012
Grin}
So as an aside, but along the same lines...............two questions
1)When did the Neolithic period start
and equally
2)When did the Iron Age end?