12th September 2011, 08:15 PM
I'm not sure how basic you want to go, but one thing that I found useful when at university was a class very early on in the course where the lecturer took us out of the classroom to look at the pavement outside. This had been dug up and patched repeatedly, so there was a pattern of intercutting repairs and layers visible. I found this very useful when trying to get my head around what was meant by a feature cutting the fill of another feature, and how this would be useful in trying to put the various repairs into some sort of relative sequence, as you could see that the trench capped with one shade of tarmac had been cut through another colour. Cost nothing, got everyone out in the fresh air for a few minutes, and was surprisingly effective.
If you've actually got them on site, I'd try to emphasise (with threats, if necessary) that you shouldn't leave half the context sheet blank, thinking that you'll go back and finish it off later. You almost certainly won't, and six months down the line, some poor mug will have to try to reconstruct a coherent matrix from a load of incomplete records.
If you've actually got them on site, I'd try to emphasise (with threats, if necessary) that you shouldn't leave half the context sheet blank, thinking that you'll go back and finish it off later. You almost certainly won't, and six months down the line, some poor mug will have to try to reconstruct a coherent matrix from a load of incomplete records.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum