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P Prentice Wrote:i hope you are not saying that you have percentaged your cursus?
Not personally, no, thats what curators are for! It'd be harking back to the days of pyramid-building digging the whole thing by hand (and the 500 slaves I ordered don't seem to have turned up yet), and big cursus ditches do get so tedious after the first few identical sections }
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Dinosaur Wrote:Not personally, no, thats what curators are for! It'd be harking back to the days of pyramid-building digging the whole thing by hand (and the 500 slaves I ordered don't seem to have turned up yet), and big cursus ditches do get so tedious after the first few identical sections }
obviously you are joking because nobody in this century would ever think that anything less than 100% was sufficient
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P Prentice Wrote:obviously you are joking because nobody in this century would ever think that anything less than 100% was sufficient
Dont know the full details of Dino's project but that would depend on the development area, type and extent of impact etc.
As anyone knows commercial archaeology is about mitigating the impact of the development not fleecing the client for as much money as you can get.
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Jack Wrote:Dont know the full details of Dino's project but that would depend on the development area, type and extent of impact etc.
As anyone knows commercial archaeology is about mitigating the impact of the development not fleecing the client for as much money as you can get.
Jack you are so PPG16 - its not about mitigation anymore, its about 'understanding'.
i would contest that any cursus in Britain is worth 100% excavation and that no level of destruction should be tolerated without such.
i did like your rant on digginthedirt though
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P Prentice Wrote:Jack you are so PPG16 - its not about mitigation anymore, its about 'understanding'.
i would contest that any cursus in Britain is worth 100% excavation and that no level of destruction should be tolerated without such.
Really? Whatever happened to preservation in situ as the first option, archaeology is destruction after all. Or at least leaving some of it for future generations of super archaeologists and their 'improved techniques' to examine.
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Sith Wrote:Really? Whatever happened to preservation in situ as the first option, archaeology is destruction after all. Or at least leaving some of it for future generations of super archaeologists and their 'improved techniques' to examine.
have you read PPS5?
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I don't think Dinosaur actually said that they were digging a cursus, he simply said that the holes his team had dug could be measured, and that he had to use this to work out the percentage of the site that remained. He didn't say what the site was, whether the total amount of material shifted from the holes had to amount to a certain percentage of a particular feature (say 25% of all linear features, for example), or whether the site had to be 100% excavated (in which case, the percentage calculation would compare the area already excavated against the total site area to provide a rough indication for the client of the likely time and cost to complete the site).
I also think it was probably intended as a joke, but the humour may have been diluted slightly by the subsequent analysis!
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11th May 2011, 07:16 PM
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Quote:i would contest that any cursus in Britain is worth 100% excavation and that no level of destruction should be tolerated without such.
meanwhile, back in the real world......
thanks for the giggle though :face-approve: worth logging in for. It was a joke, no?
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100% excavation = 100% destruction :face-huh:
