Post Ex

[voice of reason]

indeed - many of us old lags have written up other people's backlog sites and know how difficult it is to deal with, no matter how good the paperwork (and it is not always good). There is no subsititute for having the person resposnsible for digging the site involved. Familiarity, ability to visualise and the need to apply intellectual thought in reconsidering hypotheses formed on site (which influence the record)are all key to doing good archaeology and creating a product which stands up. To do otherwise reduces recording and PX analysis process

Looking at it from a purely efficiency-driven view, it cannot simply be cost-effective to have to become acquainted with a site from scratch and produce an archaeologically wholly rigourous product.