26th July 2012, 12:40 PM
Who said anything about resenting training people? I'm all for it, doesn't mean its going to happen though
As for gravel sites, judging by my experiences (one site last year in particular) staff (including some POs) from lego-block outfits can dig the soily bits in the top of features but are mystified by anything backfilled with gravel, so anything like palisade trenches and graves are just going to get recorded as shallow gullies and shallow oval hollows (ie just the post-backfilling subsidence) and then the, ahem, supervisor/SPO has to step in and dig the other 90% for them, if of course they're up to the task...
Have too many examples to mention of old (actually mostly not that old) sites which I've had to deal with (am writing up several right now) where it's quite clear how poor the original work was, the skill is in spotting the occasional ray of competent sunshine. Unfortunately you usually just have to go with whatever the original recorder wrote - have a slight advantage with some of the current stuff since it's since been area-excavated meaning it gives me a measure of how much b*****s is contained in the rest. Could people writing up fieldwalking projects please explain, in as much detail as possible, exactly how the work was done? Sooooo much unuseable data :face-crying:
As for gravel sites, judging by my experiences (one site last year in particular) staff (including some POs) from lego-block outfits can dig the soily bits in the top of features but are mystified by anything backfilled with gravel, so anything like palisade trenches and graves are just going to get recorded as shallow gullies and shallow oval hollows (ie just the post-backfilling subsidence) and then the, ahem, supervisor/SPO has to step in and dig the other 90% for them, if of course they're up to the task...
Have too many examples to mention of old (actually mostly not that old) sites which I've had to deal with (am writing up several right now) where it's quite clear how poor the original work was, the skill is in spotting the occasional ray of competent sunshine. Unfortunately you usually just have to go with whatever the original recorder wrote - have a slight advantage with some of the current stuff since it's since been area-excavated meaning it gives me a measure of how much b*****s is contained in the rest. Could people writing up fieldwalking projects please explain, in as much detail as possible, exactly how the work was done? Sooooo much unuseable data :face-crying: