12th December 2005, 03:57 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Gagumph
Sorry to come back to this after such a long time (lost my password) but seems pertinent now given the above thread.Given that we are fairly clear what happened to [u]Austrian</u> archaeologist Marcus Koller, doesnt it seem strange that no-one has any real knowledge of the CTRL grader horror (even those of us that worked on the project for 10 years)
I think this should be put to bed before it becomes an urban (rural?) myth that old archaeologists like to frighten impressionable new starters with
Sorry, but I thought that I had already made an attempt to put this to bed. Unless there is a whole ghost army of diggers out there that no one knows about, the only archaeologist killed during an excavation in Britain was Jeffrey Radley. He was killed in York in July 1970 when a trench in which he had been working collapsed. There is a plaque dedicated to him on the Anglian tower in the Museum Gardens.
http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/york_walks-..._590px.jpg
He was a well respected and very experienced archaeologist who decided to go back in for that ?last look at the section?. Needless to say, his story has been used as an example to archaeologists ever since.
As I said last time I posted this information, if there were others, surely we?d all know about them.
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