15th December 2011, 01:21 PM
Martin Locock Wrote:If Jack has found instances when the site records in an archive are deficient or missing, perhaps curators should be checking them as part of the fieldwork monitoring?
As I think I've commented on here before, the current bane of my life is archives where the museums seem to have 'mislaid' large chunks even when we know they were deposited.....but yes, some archives even when received direct from other units are sometimes not what I personally would describe as complete - where's all the correspondence etc, for instance, and often photo catalogues etc are sadly deficient, 'view of site' can often fail to convey what the photographer was originally trying to capture (in one case I can think of that I came across in an archive it was clearly a group of pits carefully depicted in relation to a roundhouse, although I never figured out which pits and which roundhouse)