5 years time.....

[gwyl]

Absolutely, well said Gwylym and it is for precisely that reason I believe that all archaeologists should spend 5 years working in consultancy before they are allowed near a trowel.

i wonder whether you're one of those curators who have driven me bonkers by refusing to give me an answer there and then whether i can backfill or need to discuss the results of the eval up the line; or perhaps one of those to which i have told a story on site which when i have checked the pottery dates and actually thought about the relationship of features to one another actually writes a completely different report...
something tells me you might be the latter, but then again, hindsight is a wonderful thng...

but still at least a decade or so on site means that the right questions can be asked during the monitoring visit, rather than flaffing about... for those who have the ambition and nous, at any rate to employ their site experience, whehter they go into consultancy or devcon or whatever...

but it's just the half-baked opinion of someone who's too busy digging holes to make sense of concepts that are too clever...