12th November 2013, 09:56 AM
barkingdigger Wrote:Tool, the answer you seek is simple - understand the features in your trench, how they relate, and how they affect the understanding of the site.
Apparently not a requirement if following the 'lego-brick' approach, so treat that as optional, depending on who you're working for.
@RedEarth - since most diggers aren't ever going to rise above 'digger' they could at least take some pride in what tasks they are undertaking? I'd suggest that being able to find an edge is a pretty basic skill. And if you can't find the edge you're unlikely to find that e.g. critical relationship with another feature? I've worked on a big mag. limestone site where the local unit's regular diggers (who you'd think would know the stuff) weren't even edging and bottoming rock-cut ditches! [for those readers unfamiliar, mag. limestone tends to dump a load of powdered white stuff as a primary fill in some features] Some of them were double the recorded (and published) depth! :face-crying: