18th April 2010, 11:23 AM
GnomeKing Wrote:"....however i have seen the "ditch relationship" argument turned grossly head-over-ass at times...i have heard an excavator say that they do not believe a reliable single relationship can be concluded from there investigation - their manager has turned round and told them that they bloody well better find a relationship (there has to be a relationship...), and nobody else is in the position to 'find' it (otherwise i'll have too just try and guess in post-ex [somebody sack this person...we need nice clear drawings and records, not uncertainties...])....
What do you do in the small percentage of cases where there just isn't a discernable relationship? In a lot of areas around here ditches on rural sites all tend to be filled with the same homogeneous, nondescript brown gloop (if it's raining) or rock-hard clay (if it's not), and sometimes either there isn't a handy tipping rock in just the right place or you've already mattocked it out before spotting it (doh!)....often those relationships have to be worked out months later in the office ('that ditch had a bit of Iron Age pot in it at the other side of the site, but this ditch runs parallel to the ridge and furrow which cut the first ditch'....) :face-huh:
Are we straying away from 'grey literature' or just widening the parameters? :p