28th December 2012, 03:17 PM
P Prentice Wrote:but your mob already quote them as the standards that you will adhere to in every wsi you produce
Don't have much choice since all the curators religeously include that in all the cut-and-paste specs they churn out

I for one do at least try to tailor the things slightly so that they're more relevent to the job at hand, eg recently getting OSL written in to one for a site where I knew the proposed C14 wasn't going to get off the ground (poor charcoal survival for some reason), whereas just following the 'letter of the law' would have followed all the standards etc but resulted in an awful lot of undated archaeology - mind you, with the cost of OSL we won't be doing that too often!