28th September 2012, 02:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 28th September 2012, 02:43 PM by BoneGirl.)
From my experience I would say the answer is a bit yes and bit no. If I am honest, I don't think the system was asking for anything particularly new, but I think it did encourage people to think about what they were digging and in a round about way helped to understand the archaeology more, but also more time was taken to make sure people knew how to fill out the recording sheets in the first place. But I suspect it was because we were actively encouraged to think rather than knock it out and move on. Of course some people did take the proverbial. }
As someone who has checked paperwork from T5 and from other commercial sites, I can say that the paperwork from T5 was often much better to read and much better thought out than some of the back of a fag packet inconsistent recording I have seen since then.
As to changes of approach, I think many diggers who worked there took what they learnt and ran with it, I don't think it changed any practices on a grand scale though.
As someone who has checked paperwork from T5 and from other commercial sites, I can say that the paperwork from T5 was often much better to read and much better thought out than some of the back of a fag packet inconsistent recording I have seen since then.
As to changes of approach, I think many diggers who worked there took what they learnt and ran with it, I don't think it changed any practices on a grand scale though.