24th February 2008, 01:22 PM
It would be easy to fall into the trap of knocking Museums for the variety of archiving systems (box sizes,labelling of bags/boxes etc),but i imagine a lot of this has to with the onset of developer funding and the introduction of PPG16,which saw an increase in the number of sites being dug and an increase in the number of finds and site documents needing to be deposited and stored at museums.This no doubt led to most museums evolving their own systems of archiving to cope.
Having said that,it will soon be twenty years since PPG16 was introduced and we should be moving towards one system being used by all museums.
Also;all commercial units should be working to the same standards-but this can only happen when we have one recording system for all units to use,at the end of the day the principals of recording finds/features are the same for all sites regardless of whoever does the site!
As Velociraptor says its okay for veteran diggers,we know what information is needed on site,but folks just starting?
Oh well to quote President Roosevelt (if he had been a digger that is) "i'm an old campaigner-and i love a good site"
Dirty Dave
Having said that,it will soon be twenty years since PPG16 was introduced and we should be moving towards one system being used by all museums.
Also;all commercial units should be working to the same standards-but this can only happen when we have one recording system for all units to use,at the end of the day the principals of recording finds/features are the same for all sites regardless of whoever does the site!
As Velociraptor says its okay for veteran diggers,we know what information is needed on site,but folks just starting?
Oh well to quote President Roosevelt (if he had been a digger that is) "i'm an old campaigner-and i love a good site"
Dirty Dave