20th October 2005, 07:41 PM
Come on people. what about glorious sand? Lovely to trowel, lovely to shovel, and drains freely. Doesn't forgive a heavy hand or boot though.
Got to disagree about chalk though. Doesn't clean up very well (It's as bad as gravel) And the black on white thing is a myth. Try off-white on off-white. Try digging beaker burials and ring ditches topped with rammed chalk that is cleaner than the natural. Reminds me a bit of the black on black stuff in cities formerly called "dark earth" (I've thought for a while that AS archaeology will be revolutionized when someone invents a polarized optical gizmo to distinguish different shades of dark grey).
Got to disagree about chalk though. Doesn't clean up very well (It's as bad as gravel) And the black on white thing is a myth. Try off-white on off-white. Try digging beaker burials and ring ditches topped with rammed chalk that is cleaner than the natural. Reminds me a bit of the black on black stuff in cities formerly called "dark earth" (I've thought for a while that AS archaeology will be revolutionized when someone invents a polarized optical gizmo to distinguish different shades of dark grey).