22nd August 2011, 07:29 PM
BAJR Wrote:if you look at the stats, the rise of the commercial can be traced in teh numbers of diggers... from a few hundred in teh 80s to thousands in the 90s and early 21st century... rising year on year.
-ahh, so you've not been around long enough to remember Crickley Hill ads for hundreds of diggers every year, and I've shared a site campsite elsewhere with 130...and, eerm, think there just a tad more than 'a few hundred' employed on CP archaeology schemes at their height.....several of the ones I worked on had 50+. The infamous 1986 footie match between the CEU and Northants parts of the Raunds Area Project had 200 diggers turn up as spectators, not including the 22 players and the world's worst ref (sorry Tim, if you're still out there). Can't get my head around the silly little workforces we have these days, can't get anything done :face-crying: