14th September 2005, 02:01 PM
So - a new digger arrives on site. It's his first dig, or he's maybe got around 6 weeks on student digs.
Can you point him at part of the site and say something like "got a puzzling little area here, quite a few inter-cutting features that we don't understand yet, please clean it up, sort out the relationships, plan it, excavate it and record it, tell me if you have any problems, keep me informed as you go along"?
Over-simplifying maybe, but many supervisors or POs would expect to say something like that to a really experienced digger. Similar things were said to me when I was in that position. They shouldn't say it to a newby - they'd be lost, and you'd get cock-ups of the 'mortar pillar' type described recently on another thread.
That's the kind of extra responsibility that I meant in my previous post.
1man1desk
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Can you point him at part of the site and say something like "got a puzzling little area here, quite a few inter-cutting features that we don't understand yet, please clean it up, sort out the relationships, plan it, excavate it and record it, tell me if you have any problems, keep me informed as you go along"?
Over-simplifying maybe, but many supervisors or POs would expect to say something like that to a really experienced digger. Similar things were said to me when I was in that position. They shouldn't say it to a newby - they'd be lost, and you'd get cock-ups of the 'mortar pillar' type described recently on another thread.
That's the kind of extra responsibility that I meant in my previous post.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished