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I had a similar problem but from the other side of the coin on a water-logged site once. I found a piece of rib bone in a pit with what looked like the start of two entwined snakes carved on it,took it in the hut to show our on site finds person who promptly declared it as "an obvious Mr (Blanks) fake" and threw it in the bin!it took me all day to convince her that it was genuine,at one point she even accused me of faking it.
But we did have a goo d laugh about it down the pub that night,though i'm still not sure that she believed me!
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While working on an urban site in the midlands, I put one brick each day for nearly a whole week into the bottom of a colleague's ruck-sack who had a bus journey and a couple of miles walk home everyday. By the end of the week, he was complaining of being over-tired and feeling weak (i.e. his bag was uncharacteristically heavy). Later that Friday, while minding my own business, a brick flew across my head followed by another, then a kick up the backside and a couple of dead arms. I was laughing too hard to protect myself. Soz J., wherever you are.
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In my early days as a digger I went to Germany to work on a rescue excavation - nice Mesolithic activity site at the base of a cliff. As part of the set-up a couple of guys were sent out to find a suitable location for the site lavvy. About a hundred yards away in a patch of woodland they found a wooden platform that appeared to cover a hollow of some sort, so they cut a hole in the platform and put a bucket-type toilet on the top and a canvas structure around it - perfect for the job (no pun intended) and well-used over the next few weeks.
One day an eminent German professor appeared on site - the previous summer he had excavated a burial nearby and the radiocarbon dates had now shown that it too was Mesolithic - the best Meso burial in Germany. He had now returned to take environmental samples from the grave fill (should have done them at the time of excavation, but this was Germany).
'Marvellous' we said, 'where is the grave?' He pointed over towards the woods and said 'about a hundred meters, but we covered the open grave with a wooden platform in order to protect the grave fill'!
Beamo
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A few years ago I was working on a site with the Time Team filming us for one of their special progs,we was told on the first day that whoever makes the first find will be interviewed on camera and explain what they had-so to cut out that nonsence I relegated myself to shovelling out for the rest of the crew cleaning the trench.After about ten minutes I felt the shovel touch something and the archaeologist in me had to dig it up,out comes a catapult shaped bit of worked antler and promply I got grassed up as the first person to find owt!
The camera crew were brought over and for nearly twenty minutes I had to explain what it might be (especially the small groove round one of the prongs-I said it might have been cut to hold string in place),that over I started to walk of back to the trench when the REAL answer hit me-that was where i'd hit it with the shovel in the first place!![:I]
