28th August 2008, 11:20 PM
I must admit, as a "geoarchaeologist", I had a debilatating preoccupation with crowbarring in some extra details about the sediments etc on things I excavated during commercial excavations.
A particularly fine example was of a collection of small stake-holes in a granary building in NE Scotland from the Late Iron Age exhibiting some cutting-edge Roman technology. They were cut into a clay deposit that was only found in this one building. I waxed lyrical about sourcing clays and floor construction for the entire back of the context sheet. Tragically, by the next week I had begun taking up the floor, by the time the offending sheet was texted to everyone else on site, on top of lots of scoring out it only said "ICE WEDGE" in massive letters.
A particularly fine example was of a collection of small stake-holes in a granary building in NE Scotland from the Late Iron Age exhibiting some cutting-edge Roman technology. They were cut into a clay deposit that was only found in this one building. I waxed lyrical about sourcing clays and floor construction for the entire back of the context sheet. Tragically, by the next week I had begun taking up the floor, by the time the offending sheet was texted to everyone else on site, on top of lots of scoring out it only said "ICE WEDGE" in massive letters.