1st September 2013, 08:32 PM
As Unit and Wax point out, the idea of finding nothing at all is ludicrous, there is always something, and how important it is perhaps depends how you look at it. You wonder how much of it comes down to people's perception of what is important. A couple of undated ditches might be nothing, but in an area where ceramics (and finds in general) are pretty rare between about 400 AD and 1000 AD (which is quite a few areas I would imagine) those ditches might be very important. Seen too many reports written by people coming into an area which are very ready to write-off things as not important when then they are perhaps used to finding more juicy archaeology.