20th June 2013, 08:57 AM
Jack Wrote:[SIZE=2]This used to be (but is still on some sites) the call that heralds the five minute warning for a break or that it's time to pack up and go home.[/SIZE]
...or the cue for the supervisor to go 'find someone's edges' for them for the next 4.5mins, with a mattock}
On the 'halo' issue, best I ever saw was at Stanwick Villa in ?1988 - the tools for no obvious reason were delivered packed in black soot [cue School of Jack Lesson 23 - cleaning tools...], apparently derived from the Windsor Castle fire...this wasn't a good thing on a site consisting primarily of pale yellow sand...the black halo just kept expanding outwards for weeks, its progress could probably be tracked/quantified from the site photo archive if any academic ever fancies a pointless piece of research