One Minima to Rule them All

[Marc Berger]

where does it say that the only source of those reports is in the her, did you learn nothing in uni or by experience, going to your local library, museum, talking to the local? Are you saying that your excavation results are rubbish if you have no information from next door or are you saying that if you know what they have done next door you can get away with producing slightly better rubbish....The criminal system in this country spends a lot of time trying to stop juries from being influenced by opinion, it wants the truth to be objective. The whole ifa competence clauses are really an old boy network excuse. You wont find me worrying about any local knowing more than they need too.

What happens if you find nothing in your evaluation trenches even though there's obviously going to be archaeology in the site (we've all been there!)?

obviously what where? As I said an evaluation is to estimate excavation cost not to find archaeology, the closest that "finding nothing" might be is sample assessment by random trench and that is no different to geophysics or staring at APs with a diving rod. Please there should be a rule here-This is Site based archaeology not how to find a site. Curators make this mistake daily mostly on large rural sites. Lets put it another way which is that the only way that a watching brief is instigated is if an Evaluation did not produce any evidence of significant archaeology. How many watching briefs do not follow an evaluation-

What are the curators like round your way? tmsarch seems to have made you jump.