10th September 2011, 06:22 PM
...oh, and there's plenty of aged and hoary archaeologists around here if he's looking for somewhere to start, but a lot of them seem to prefer to work intermittently (presumably getting older means having a wider range of interests?) so are likely to fall through the cracks in any survey? The advantage of having been around for ever is that firms know to phone hem up when there's work in their area, with of course the occasional surprise that some of them were, in fact, mortal.......