23rd July 2013, 12:22 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:Ha Dino starting to sound like a curtator are we not
God (of whatever flavour) forbid! :0
I just like to maximise recovery of archaeological data from any job I'm on - and it looks bad if you start by missing half the 'known' stuff at the start, whether due to over-machining, poor ground visibility or whatever. A lot of people seem to be unable to machine-strip at any level higher than half a metre into the natural, so giving them detailed instructions in advance seems like a pretty fair idea, when the info's available? That's not the level of input you ever get from any curator, they tend to assume (perhaps wrongly in some cases) that we're all grown-up field archaeologists who can figure this out for ourselves