17th November 2016, 01:29 PM
A hand-dug evaluation trench is just a small excavation, surely? Same standard of work and reporting, anyway, or should be :face-thinks:
I'd agree that those 'evaluations' done by outfits who've costed to turn up with a machine to dig and backfill the trenches in a day and say there's nothing there probably don't count as 'excavation' though (at least in any archaeological sense) - FAR too many of those :face-crying:
I'd agree that those 'evaluations' done by outfits who've costed to turn up with a machine to dig and backfill the trenches in a day and say there's nothing there probably don't count as 'excavation' though (at least in any archaeological sense) - FAR too many of those :face-crying: