6th March 2012, 01:50 PM
Youngsters of today keep telling me cuts always (and have always) go in rectangles, fills in ovals, and always seem quite upset when it's pointed out that actually that isn't the case - eg. our recording manual actually merely suggests that context numbers go in rectangles, but luckily since clearly no one has ever read the thing we still get a variety of ovals, brackets and ***-knows what else written on the recording, even by project officers. They never seem to have an answer as to what shape you put other types of context in (a good one is a surface, as in a geometric plane rather than a physical expanse of cobbling). Have been seeing SFs in trianges and samples in diamonds for the last 3 decades at lots of different units all over, so that seems to be pretty common, suspect lots of people just copied the old DoE/EH system (where they were already printed on the bags/labels) - whatever happened to single feature numbers (or letters?), cut out an awful lot of the confusion about where finds came from. For some reason samples here still get letter codes (AA, AB, AC etc), but luckily we switched to SF numbering a while back just to let the diggers mix them up with the context (and any other) numbers.....