19th January 2014, 08:32 PM
With paper thin profit margins the norm today one would expect senior management to consider very carefuly if to go ahead with the retrieval of lots of unstrat finds from spoil heaps. The cost implications this would bring with respect to conservation, curation and adding the info to the final report may well tip the project into the red. I have experienced this a few times when voluntering as a detectorist, where the Senior PO has told me that they now have a representative sample of RB finds so the rest can be left in the spoil.