6th August 2013, 01:19 PM
P Prentice Wrote:...for instance the number will always change depending on how much charred material is in the sample examined...
Doesn't change the red/yellow ratio, unless I was lied to at school about what constitutes black...but yeah, hardly a good guide in many cases
I'd rather people record how a layer or whatever differs from adjacent layers - had to write up someone's ditch recently where they had 6 fills all of which had identical soil descriptions...no explanation whatsoever as to why they apparently warranted separate context numbers! A few comments like 'mid brown but noticeably darker/sandier/whatever than fill XX below' would be helpful, if only so's less people fall asleep reading about it