23rd June 2009, 10:37 AM
Doc
I have undertaken watching briefs on a 9km road scheme spread over a year, a 47km pipeline daily for eight months, and now for the last five years I have specialised in wb on porch extensions for little old ladies. In that time I have found thousands of things and pride myself on being able to find stuff where others would not (including modern, industrial, agricultural). I have never sat it out in the car or got a taste for crosswords or playing with a mobile phone. I keep my nose right at the edge of the bucket.
and not a single thing that I have found has made it anywhere near to the main mantle piece museum.
And it?s a bloody pointless exercise and an utter waste of any archaeologist no matter how experienced/inexperienced when all around us good archaeology deposits are being massively eroded before are eyes?.
They are a total misinterpretation of ppg16?
and don?t worry they don?t call them watching briefs anymore
I have undertaken watching briefs on a 9km road scheme spread over a year, a 47km pipeline daily for eight months, and now for the last five years I have specialised in wb on porch extensions for little old ladies. In that time I have found thousands of things and pride myself on being able to find stuff where others would not (including modern, industrial, agricultural). I have never sat it out in the car or got a taste for crosswords or playing with a mobile phone. I keep my nose right at the edge of the bucket.
and not a single thing that I have found has made it anywhere near to the main mantle piece museum.
And it?s a bloody pointless exercise and an utter waste of any archaeologist no matter how experienced/inexperienced when all around us good archaeology deposits are being massively eroded before are eyes?.
They are a total misinterpretation of ppg16?
and don?t worry they don?t call them watching briefs anymore