29th April 2005, 11:07 AM
I was a Project Officer once for a large(and basically evil) consultancy.I employed a digger who had come from 5 years at a county unit which had just used him to dig holes where the supervisor pointed, and someone else did the recording.I guess the point I am trying to make is it should be a choice. Archaeologists in my opinion should be able to dig a site, direct a site and write up a site in order that they understand the reason why a context sheet must have all the boxs filled in or why they are digging another section across the linear, all of this can and should be learnt on the job.