20th August 2013, 12:57 PM
Wax Wrote:I get confused by organisations that are registered charities but undertake paid commercial work. I am intrigued as to how that works.
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Me too.
My second 'training dig' was at a well-known rowing lake down south......near Eton I think }
I paid a weekly rate (can't remember how much) for 'food' and a spot to put up my tent. Spent a fair amount of time: moving caravans for the 'real' archaeologists to stay in, working in the kitchen, serving food, sieving soil, washing finds...but did dig some archaeology...I got to dig some tree boles and then a hearth (with I have to say very good supervision) and then got to dig out flints, marbles and iron nails from a gridded spit by spit dig through a buried soil....(which apparently is now a 'preserved neolithic ritual deposit').
Sounds like any other student dig? Well yes except it was a commercial project, made obvious by the watching brief being undertaken on the diggers and moxies digging out the rowing lake next to the training dig areas......though of course I have no idea if the projects were funded differently.............??!!
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