11th May 2011, 02:30 PM
I don't think Dinosaur actually said that they were digging a cursus, he simply said that the holes his team had dug could be measured, and that he had to use this to work out the percentage of the site that remained. He didn't say what the site was, whether the total amount of material shifted from the holes had to amount to a certain percentage of a particular feature (say 25% of all linear features, for example), or whether the site had to be 100% excavated (in which case, the percentage calculation would compare the area already excavated against the total site area to provide a rough indication for the client of the likely time and cost to complete the site).
I also think it was probably intended as a joke, but the humour may have been diluted slightly by the subsequent analysis!
I also think it was probably intended as a joke, but the humour may have been diluted slightly by the subsequent analysis!
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum