27th February 2012, 01:42 PM
Don't mention Stargates! You know it always sets Jack off..... (I've got all the complete box sets so I've reached an equilibrium of sorts...)
I know this is probably going back further than you mean (or maybe not), but those much-maligned watercolours in old reports often convey far, far more useful information than more recent monochrome photographs and even 'technical' drawings - the added '3D' can considerably add to understanding of what's going on (particularly since, inevitably, the illustration was subjective/interpretive). Hence drawing finds rather than just photographing them, the drawings are to some extent (varying with the skill of the illustrator) subjective. There were some advantages to the old-style one-person-writes-all-the-records as well (assuming they were any good), at least it was all coming from the same hymn-sheet and everything was recorded in the same way...its a right b***er trying to do report illustrations of, say, 15 postholes that have all been drawn by different people with different ideas of how to draw (or not draw) rocks.....
I know this is probably going back further than you mean (or maybe not), but those much-maligned watercolours in old reports often convey far, far more useful information than more recent monochrome photographs and even 'technical' drawings - the added '3D' can considerably add to understanding of what's going on (particularly since, inevitably, the illustration was subjective/interpretive). Hence drawing finds rather than just photographing them, the drawings are to some extent (varying with the skill of the illustrator) subjective. There were some advantages to the old-style one-person-writes-all-the-records as well (assuming they were any good), at least it was all coming from the same hymn-sheet and everything was recorded in the same way...its a right b***er trying to do report illustrations of, say, 15 postholes that have all been drawn by different people with different ideas of how to draw (or not draw) rocks.....