13th June 2013, 01:49 PM
Nice one Dino! (Once had the joy of finding half a mortar shell on a shovel - and the break was very fresh...)
My best spoil-heap experience was hunting an unexcavated post-hole on an old (10 years+?) dig in a quarry, where it seems some clown slipped in after the dig and deposited a completely non-archaeological spoilheap in the form of a 20ft high berm directly on top of it! Still, it was necessary for some prehysterical heavenly alignment guff, so out came the BYT to clear it off...
My best spoil-heap experience was hunting an unexcavated post-hole on an old (10 years+?) dig in a quarry, where it seems some clown slipped in after the dig and deposited a completely non-archaeological spoilheap in the form of a 20ft high berm directly on top of it! Still, it was necessary for some prehysterical heavenly alignment guff, so out came the BYT to clear it off...