16th April 2010, 10:05 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Odinn - 'proper' (as in the traditional, keep-your-children-away-from-them) circuit diggers were pretty much killed off as a breed by the switch to archaeology being funded mainly through Community Programme back in the '80s (which meant that CP sites were staffed by people sent from the job centre, meaning 'proper' diggers in theory had to spend 6 months on the dole between jobs to qualify...)It was a rhetorical question really, to show how out of date the professor, to whom I was referring, was. My first ever dig was an MSC scheme.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'