31st January 2014, 08:25 PM
Jack Wrote:Take lots of photographs...
...but be careful which ones you stick in the report, no point advertising the fact that you f***ed-up - have been personally involved in a couple of projects recently where sites had previously been trial-trenched by others, finding 'nothing', when in retrospect one can see in the report photos all the stone walls etc hanging out halfway up the sections in the machine-overdug trenches...the Roman road with a trench-shaped hole in the middle of it wasn't a ringing endorsement for the profession either. Neither client was too happy about the subsequent 'unexpected' additional archaeological costs...two different groups of culprits, so presumably this sort of report-illustration faux pas is fairly common?