7th September 2011, 08:32 PM
Think I've pointed out somewhere on here before that an alarming number of diggers, even graduates, seem never to have actually read a 'grey' excavation report from cover to cover, if at all. A bit more of that and they might have some idea what the end product is that they're working towards, and then produce some site record etc a little more along those lines?....can live in hope, anyway.....
Still think a few practical 'non-archaeological' skills like the chemical toilet offering above would be handy too - tying knots that can actually be undone again in the only bit of section string on site, for instance, or how to make the b**tard pump work, and indeed how many things can, in fact, be fixed using nothing more than a trowel, 6" nail and 3lb lump hammer (or metric equivalents). These are the skills that make a digger stand out and get him/her re-employed next time around....
Still think a few practical 'non-archaeological' skills like the chemical toilet offering above would be handy too - tying knots that can actually be undone again in the only bit of section string on site, for instance, or how to make the b**tard pump work, and indeed how many things can, in fact, be fixed using nothing more than a trowel, 6" nail and 3lb lump hammer (or metric equivalents). These are the skills that make a digger stand out and get him/her re-employed next time around....