4th June 2008, 12:34 PM
I worked on a site early on in my digging where the sire director insisted on the use of munsell colour charts (even though they where battered old faded things).
Reading through some context sheets of various volunteers and new diggers I came across a set for 30 postholes excavated by one volunteer, on the first the interpretation notes section of the context sheet went something like:
"Posthole cut into 10YR4/3 clay loam subsoil. Contains two fills (x and y). The lower fill (x) is a darker 10YR4/3 clay loam than the upper fill (y) which is also a 10YR4/3 colour."
Something similar was duplicated on each of the 30 cut contexts and all 60 of the fill contexts but with increasing degrees of uncertainty and desperate attempts to describe the colour (ending with) one describing the upper fill as a:
"10YR4/3 cadburys milk choclate colour clay loam"
and the lower as a:
"10YR4/3 Marsbar milk choclate colour clay loam"
;0)
Reading through some context sheets of various volunteers and new diggers I came across a set for 30 postholes excavated by one volunteer, on the first the interpretation notes section of the context sheet went something like:
"Posthole cut into 10YR4/3 clay loam subsoil. Contains two fills (x and y). The lower fill (x) is a darker 10YR4/3 clay loam than the upper fill (y) which is also a 10YR4/3 colour."
Something similar was duplicated on each of the 30 cut contexts and all 60 of the fill contexts but with increasing degrees of uncertainty and desperate attempts to describe the colour (ending with) one describing the upper fill as a:
"10YR4/3 cadburys milk choclate colour clay loam"
and the lower as a:
"10YR4/3 Marsbar milk choclate colour clay loam"
;0)