3rd June 2005, 07:03 PM
I have spent time on at least 100 watching briefs (naturally almost all by myself)and god how I hate them. Its all very well to have to be present during all groundworks but try doing that for at least a week on a site with bugger all on it. After a while you are able to arrive on site and rapidly get an idea of whether or not you are likely to find anything. This doesn't mean that I don't look but recently I have spent much time standing around and wondering what I, a supposedly trained archaeologist, am doing wasting my life on sites like this. It often seems that you are being paid to go to a site where it has already been decided that there isn't much chance of finding anything. Woo Hoo, just why I decided to be an archaeolgist.