19th June 2006, 06:06 PM
Troll we all love you dearly but there are times when you can be quite exasperating. Maybe it is just me being thick but is there any chance you could provide a bit more information?
Perhaps something along the lines of...
It has come to my attention that on a such-and-such type of site [???? rural, urban, industrial, waterlogged, multi-period, well-preserved, deeply-stratified, prehistoric ????] a new sampling strategy was being adopted. The type of project is a [???? evaluation, excavation, watching brief ????] , but instead of [???? open area excavation down to natural, sampling of 5% by evaluation trenches ????] , the requirement seems to be to examine 20cms of the overburden [???? in what size of area, over the whole site, in metre square test pits ????] . This is being done [???? completely randomly by an unethical unit / at the request of the curator following detailed discussion of the issues relevant to this specific site / by evil gnomes in the grip of maniacal consultants ????].
I am very sorry if this sounds patronising, I don't mean it to and I am not trying to be a pedantic git, but a slightly different phrasing of the question might generate more helpful responses. I also wonder if the issues you have raised haven't already been discussed to some extent in this thread ('Strip, Map and Sample')?
Perhaps something along the lines of...
It has come to my attention that on a such-and-such type of site [???? rural, urban, industrial, waterlogged, multi-period, well-preserved, deeply-stratified, prehistoric ????] a new sampling strategy was being adopted. The type of project is a [???? evaluation, excavation, watching brief ????] , but instead of [???? open area excavation down to natural, sampling of 5% by evaluation trenches ????] , the requirement seems to be to examine 20cms of the overburden [???? in what size of area, over the whole site, in metre square test pits ????] . This is being done [???? completely randomly by an unethical unit / at the request of the curator following detailed discussion of the issues relevant to this specific site / by evil gnomes in the grip of maniacal consultants ????].
I am very sorry if this sounds patronising, I don't mean it to and I am not trying to be a pedantic git, but a slightly different phrasing of the question might generate more helpful responses. I also wonder if the issues you have raised haven't already been discussed to some extent in this thread ('Strip, Map and Sample')?