30th June 2014, 09:30 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:in reality they often just make it up as they go along and dig immense holes where they feel like it, while the monitoring archaeologist stands by wringing their hands and wondering why they bothered meticulously hand-excavating and recording the drainage trenches as shown on the plans somewhere completely elsewhere...Ah know that feeling. spent days watching a team putting new drains in only for the foreman to check the drawings and realise they were too close to the standing buildings so the whole lot had to be pulled out and done again. Have also worked on sites where the ground works teams got the levels wrong and ended up going far deeper than they should. Archaeology is not the only profession suffering from a lack of skilled and trained staff.