9th August 2013, 01:41 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Was thinking more of those ads where 6 month is 'experienced' and 24 months gets you a PO salary - 24 months into my digging career I hadn't even seen a skelly (let alone one with shiny stuff), peat deposits, done any earthwork surveying etc - certainly wasn't qualified to be sent out to a strange site to deal with whatever was there.
We've got someone here that we're working up to PO hopefully, been digging for years but mostly industrial stuff so had never found any finds, was actually excited by a horseshoe off a spoil heap...so currently getting a crash course digging a chunk of strat Roman town with nice finds by the barrow-load...envy...envy...
Can I get this right, experienced = has dealt with treasure (not including industrial sites obvs.)? It surely kind of depends on where you work and what you typically do. Thanks for narrowing it down though.