23rd July 2010, 01:14 PM
timber_wolf Wrote:Not really a first Watching Brief nerves question but related. How many of you have unexpectedly found human remains during Watching Briefs on house extensions, and how have you dealt with them, during excavation and post ex?
Be warned that you should get yourself really familiar with human bone, often in bits and frequently very poorly preserved, in a lot of smaller watching briefs (small servive trenches, test pits and the like) human burials can be very difficult to recognize and it always looks bad when the animal bone specialist sends sit all back with an abusive note, or you go back to area excavate the site and the guy's legs are missing....a lot of babies seem to get excavated as dogs, rabbits.....or just don't get recorded at all on the same basis