18th April 2008, 09:10 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by kevin wooldridge
Many years ago I was site assistant to a supervisor who was very sensitive regarding the public image of archaeology. He was particularly keen to promote a scientific ethos when filling in context sheets and he once pulled me up, as I had described a 500mm thick dump deposit over most of the area of the trench as 'consisting largely of broken flower-pots'.
He told me, "The phrase you are searching for Kev is 'horticultural earthenware'......
Or, as one supervisor I once knew, who had a thoroughly evil sense of humour, called it "Billanbenware" Managed to convince a group of terrible ernest MA students it was an obscure type of 15th century Bavarian pottery.
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