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[Dinosaur]

sorry dino but I think that any trench evaluation should be easily able archaeologicaly to under cut any mag survey

All a trial trench tells you is WHAT'S IN THOSE FEW SQUARE METRES - totally unreliable. Have done a couple of sites where the trial trenches all landed in between the skellies, so nasty surprises for the client when the site was stripped, one had to be bailed out by the ALF.

And then of course there are those 'evaluations' where they've machined straight through the archaeology and said there was nothing there, we've just been picking up the pieces from one where they'd described the metre or so of stratified Roman vicus (including a road, stone buildings etc etc) as 'dark soil layer' and just dug the features cut into the natural at the bottom...errr...we're secretly hoping the client decides to sue someone... }