Are Standards in field Archaeology Slipping

[Marc Berger]

I once dug on a cemetery site. They only let me near one grave which I would like to suggest was selected at random. I dug mine and metal detected as I went. The other people didn't metal detect and they were such good diggers that they attempted to dig them in a day or so. I mostly remember finding a single tooth high up in the backfill. Heres a "buy product" of the as yet unpublished final report with the title "Excavations at the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen, Partney, Lincolnshire, 2003". You can find it for sale here, I wasn't asked to contribute apart from presumably my context sheets, one of the main authors was not on site and nor were the rest of the "contributors: http://www.biab.ac.uk/contents/200951 you can also buy a copy here http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.11...0370815896 says its been downloaded 109 times in the last 12 months, I wonder what that might add up to over the next seventy years.. I cant say that I am registered with any of these sites so I don't know what it costs to get a copy, Presumably I have been paid for all my self employed efforts and don't seem to have any copyrights. It was a road scheme funded by government and council money. Anyway if you are rich enough to purchase a copy, can you workout which grave I dug?

Thing about standards is that it can sometimes make you stick out like a sore thumb at a wedding or rather I would like to imagine Pippa Middleton's derrière.