3rd May 2006, 04:40 PM
Hiya - strangely, had this conversation yesterday! Some of the things mentioned then and that I've heard of before were:
1. residual material - particularly animal bone
2. stupid amounts of brick and tile and daub
3. give thought to why you are keeping unstratified finds - again thinking animal bones, wood, etc unless they are unusual/worked
4. countless non-diagnositic body sherds from enormous roman and med assemblages - is there a valid reason to hang on to this once assessed?
5. burnt flint
6. clay tobacco pipe stems (if non-diagnositic)
7. glass sherds (thinking particularly ever decreasing sizes of body and window pane pieces).
I think that you need to talk to the specialists involved, as they can probably be sensible about what is useful. I think the LAARC may have some guidelines, but they musuem of london website is down just now.
Would like to hear what conclusions you come to
ML
1. residual material - particularly animal bone
2. stupid amounts of brick and tile and daub
3. give thought to why you are keeping unstratified finds - again thinking animal bones, wood, etc unless they are unusual/worked
4. countless non-diagnositic body sherds from enormous roman and med assemblages - is there a valid reason to hang on to this once assessed?
5. burnt flint
6. clay tobacco pipe stems (if non-diagnositic)
7. glass sherds (thinking particularly ever decreasing sizes of body and window pane pieces).
I think that you need to talk to the specialists involved, as they can probably be sensible about what is useful. I think the LAARC may have some guidelines, but they musuem of london website is down just now.
Would like to hear what conclusions you come to
ML