27th May 2015, 12:22 PM
Have to admit that, on occasion, the old ways are not always the best - was watching a guy on site yesterday hunting out any missing hobnails in one of those tricky graves where the feet were jammed up at the end, and thinking that poking away for hours with a teeny dental probe was probably marginally less efficient than e.g. mattocking the whole thing into a few sample tubs and sieving it later...