25th November 2007, 02:04 PM
On that last point... I was at a lecture at a dayschool yesterday and the speaker describing a university-led dig kept saying things like "we spent 13 weeks on that area" and "that was excavated by fingertip" and so on. Having only ever worked on commercial sites where anything smaller than a mattock is positively discouraged (with swearing involved) I felt like I've been missimg out somehow.....