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Errr - phew!
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CARTOON REALITY Wrote:Farewell noble Time Team
-Though you sometimes slapped the lard on,
I will miss Tiny Tony
And the mighty Philip Hardon.
better than anything ever issued from the entire history of the programme (or at least the half dozen episcoldes i have ever seen)
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I liked 'two men in a trench'.
In the ones I saw........
They had a plan (objective).
Did preliminary works to look for best spot to dig a trench or two (geophysics, map regression, etc etc).
Dug some trenches
Got dirty and wet
Usually didn't find much.
Seemed very like field archaeology to me
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Pub Dig had beer! (and other brews)
And somehow the trenching managed to look more 'real' than TT - the only trenches
I've ever dug round the back of a pub certainly came with free beers anyway, and also found XXXX-all
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Raksha Dave's post about Time Team is an interesting read:
http://digventures.com/2013/03/29/tools-...adventure/
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Yes, that is a excellent blog post - thanks for flagging it up. Apart from the 3 day evaluation as commercial norm bit, reckon she's pretty much spot on throughout.
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serpentine Wrote:Yes, that is a excellent blog post - thanks for flagging it up. Apart from the 3 day evaluation as commercial norm bit, reckon she's pretty much spot on throughout.
I agree with your assessment. An interesting read.
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