18th October 2012, 08:33 PM
poodash you're a star :face-approve:
Last Friday I was filling in for another PO and had an absolutely fascinating conversation with a couple of the diggers who usually work elsewhere but had volunteered that they liked working here cos it was pretty much the only place they'd worked where they were actually encouraged to look for archaeology, meaning they'd dug about twice as many real features as the initial strip and map had identified, plus testing loads of blobs that turned out to be b***ocks - we've handed the site back pretty sure we recorded whatever was there to be recorded and checked the rest. I was then treated to a lengthy catalogue of abuses of the system at other places theyd worked over the last couple of years, underpricing, corner-cutting, ignoring archaeology cos it would have made under-priced jobs go over budget, some shockingly minimalistic recording etc etc. Was fairly shocked when I found out who some of the units in question were, some of the usual culprits but one that I'd always thought did good work. Ended up feeling a bit disillusioned, and wondering why we bother busting a gut to do it properly
Last Friday I was filling in for another PO and had an absolutely fascinating conversation with a couple of the diggers who usually work elsewhere but had volunteered that they liked working here cos it was pretty much the only place they'd worked where they were actually encouraged to look for archaeology, meaning they'd dug about twice as many real features as the initial strip and map had identified, plus testing loads of blobs that turned out to be b***ocks - we've handed the site back pretty sure we recorded whatever was there to be recorded and checked the rest. I was then treated to a lengthy catalogue of abuses of the system at other places theyd worked over the last couple of years, underpricing, corner-cutting, ignoring archaeology cos it would have made under-priced jobs go over budget, some shockingly minimalistic recording etc etc. Was fairly shocked when I found out who some of the units in question were, some of the usual culprits but one that I'd always thought did good work. Ended up feeling a bit disillusioned, and wondering why we bother busting a gut to do it properly