9th August 2007, 07:01 PM
Some good points there...
Some good answers .. I hope..
Can archaeologists tell me hand on heart that they don't like a nice find.. or call people across when they find a 'nice find'??
and if you find a coin.. a gold one say... what will you be talking about in the tea hut?
Many finds is my way of saying... I can ask people to donate finds.. but I can't tell people (in scotland I can) ... If people, willingly, and knowing why they are donating finds.. then I will be happy.. if they don't I will be sad, but won't hold it against them, as long as I have a record of the find.. and where it comes from.. a grot or a pin or a button... do we really need them in storage? as long as we know where they are.. or what they were? We also have to remember that the number of 'finds' on a site.. includes about 90% ring pulls, tractor parts, bottle tops, levi buttons.. (I know... I have seen it) and of the artefacts.. even they can be whittled down (thats where the on site presence by archaeologist find specilaists or FLOs is important) to ones that don't really add up to anything other than Fe obj...
It is interesting .. and why would it be that finds can be found in the plough soil, but the archaeolgists found no sites that went with them... again... location location location matters... were the finds over a large area.. randomly spread.. or concentrated in clusters... and if no site there.. then why the artefact cluster..? hmmmmmmm interesting
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
Some good answers .. I hope..
Can archaeologists tell me hand on heart that they don't like a nice find.. or call people across when they find a 'nice find'??
and if you find a coin.. a gold one say... what will you be talking about in the tea hut?
Many finds is my way of saying... I can ask people to donate finds.. but I can't tell people (in scotland I can) ... If people, willingly, and knowing why they are donating finds.. then I will be happy.. if they don't I will be sad, but won't hold it against them, as long as I have a record of the find.. and where it comes from.. a grot or a pin or a button... do we really need them in storage? as long as we know where they are.. or what they were? We also have to remember that the number of 'finds' on a site.. includes about 90% ring pulls, tractor parts, bottle tops, levi buttons.. (I know... I have seen it) and of the artefacts.. even they can be whittled down (thats where the on site presence by archaeologist find specilaists or FLOs is important) to ones that don't really add up to anything other than Fe obj...
It is interesting .. and why would it be that finds can be found in the plough soil, but the archaeolgists found no sites that went with them... again... location location location matters... were the finds over a large area.. randomly spread.. or concentrated in clusters... and if no site there.. then why the artefact cluster..? hmmmmmmm interesting
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu