The British Archaeological Awards

[garybrun]

You could have different categories.... Bronze Silver Gold for the different disciplines or contributions.
I don't think they should be given away willy nilly... maybe. There could be employers who follow good practise or have shown excellent treatment of staff... and are give the Bajr award. A life long commitment or recognition for archaeological contribution....its quite endless really... but I believe it should be an honour and an achievement to have one. Not because you have letters after your name or have good "archaeology speak".



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[angi]

quote:Originally posted by Dirty Dave Lincoln

Over the years diggers have often joked about a diggers olympics (javelin or ranging rod throwing etc),or we could stage our own version of Its a Knockout?
Don't know about awards but with some sites a campaign medal would be more appropiate!![8D]

The summer before last, a few of us had this all worked out: firstly it'd be site vs site within the same company, the ultimate winner would compete against another company and so on.

The games I can remember were the obligatory ranging pole javelin, spoil heap slalom, iron age ditch pole vault, wheelbarrow bobsleigh, wheelbarrow jousting... I know that we thought of more, but I've forgotten most of them!

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Angi,if the proffesion was to get its own Olympics up and running we could stage it for example every 2years?but what about our version of the torch procession? (no body-guard thugs allowed) would it do a circuit of major historical sites,before being taken to stonehenge and lighting a big bonfire/wicker man (filled with rogue diggers guilty of heinous crimes against archaeology) to open the games.}