25th April 2012, 05:39 PM
Appropriate sample size, from the correct place, for the planned analysis.
I remember an environmental archaeologist wearily describing how someone brought him several buckets of soil, when what he needed was a sample the size of a matchbox from a very specific location. Plus a site post-ex plan which had specified a one litre soil sample from each context. Where a context had contained less than one litre, this had been made up from the spoilheap...
I remember an environmental archaeologist wearily describing how someone brought him several buckets of soil, when what he needed was a sample the size of a matchbox from a very specific location. Plus a site post-ex plan which had specified a one litre soil sample from each context. Where a context had contained less than one litre, this had been made up from the spoilheap...