5th February 2013, 11:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 5th February 2013, 11:55 AM by Unitof1.)
Interesting mtDNA problems hosty and hopefully all those dna people wont turn out to look like monkeys if its found that rickees maternal line were a bunch of slappers that had slept with half of britain and europe. leave it my son.
and an Interesting evaluation? technique when you are looking for late medieval deposits in a demolished building site. To hit the articulated leg bones in the base of a grave cut is a bit wincy at the best of times and would suggest that they were using a general- expose a certain percentage of natural in the base of the trench evaluation method and leave yourself a manageable bit of digging to do then presumably record the section. Kind of method that you might do for quarry work over large areas with lots of splogges below a topsoil.
But this is how it should be in developer funded archaeology if you want to have inexpensive evaluations when you dont know what you are looking for? Not so sure that its how to go at an urban site expecting bodies and being funded by a tearful private sector little old lady with the permission of the apparant landowner who also happen to be the planning authority-looking for remains that the church could possibly claim are theirs (not that they would care even though they took on lots of tithies to do so).
I have to say that when I establish articulated human remains I like to stop (let the coronor know etc) and establish that the aims of the evaluation in that area have been achieved and then start discussing the contract and pricing for an open area excavation. From the program I did not get much sense other human remains were found which might suggest that burying remains in this area was rare and possibly gives rickees body an bit of qudos in the pricing of contract stakes. You can also wonder how many bodies were they prepared for in this exercise.
Maybe this was not an evaluation but an excavation- a narrow trench excavation but using inespensive evaluation techniques (without an evaluatio). The excersise seems to have been funded by crowdfunding, one wonders how much the price was rested on not finding a possible rickee. I think I heard the amount of £10k was raised. Be interesting to know what the diggers on this site were paid, cant have been much. Possibly did it for love.
They did seem to go into an excavation phase- they widened the trench a little bit? Possibly limited by nearby buildings? Obviously the next thing that you do is to make somebody dress up in a paper suit and face mask (presumably to stop dna contamination?) and then use a mattock to expose the rest of the area, this a must, particularly if you are in an inexpensive hurry in looking for bodies with blows to the head.
PS Just off to paint big letters Rs in council carparks round my way.
and an Interesting evaluation? technique when you are looking for late medieval deposits in a demolished building site. To hit the articulated leg bones in the base of a grave cut is a bit wincy at the best of times and would suggest that they were using a general- expose a certain percentage of natural in the base of the trench evaluation method and leave yourself a manageable bit of digging to do then presumably record the section. Kind of method that you might do for quarry work over large areas with lots of splogges below a topsoil.
But this is how it should be in developer funded archaeology if you want to have inexpensive evaluations when you dont know what you are looking for? Not so sure that its how to go at an urban site expecting bodies and being funded by a tearful private sector little old lady with the permission of the apparant landowner who also happen to be the planning authority-looking for remains that the church could possibly claim are theirs (not that they would care even though they took on lots of tithies to do so).
I have to say that when I establish articulated human remains I like to stop (let the coronor know etc) and establish that the aims of the evaluation in that area have been achieved and then start discussing the contract and pricing for an open area excavation. From the program I did not get much sense other human remains were found which might suggest that burying remains in this area was rare and possibly gives rickees body an bit of qudos in the pricing of contract stakes. You can also wonder how many bodies were they prepared for in this exercise.
Maybe this was not an evaluation but an excavation- a narrow trench excavation but using inespensive evaluation techniques (without an evaluatio). The excersise seems to have been funded by crowdfunding, one wonders how much the price was rested on not finding a possible rickee. I think I heard the amount of £10k was raised. Be interesting to know what the diggers on this site were paid, cant have been much. Possibly did it for love.
They did seem to go into an excavation phase- they widened the trench a little bit? Possibly limited by nearby buildings? Obviously the next thing that you do is to make somebody dress up in a paper suit and face mask (presumably to stop dna contamination?) and then use a mattock to expose the rest of the area, this a must, particularly if you are in an inexpensive hurry in looking for bodies with blows to the head.
PS Just off to paint big letters Rs in council carparks round my way.
Reason: your past is my past