Funniest Context Sheets

[BAJR Host]

Mmmmmmm I'm getting peaches.. a hint of Dordogne .. with a slight feel of the smell of bllsht



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

As a joke once when starting the context register on a site I put down "post-glacial deposit-of various thickness,colour and texture"
After that what else needs to be said about any site?[8D]

[Unitof1]

Pre-glacial

[Windbag]

I remember a story going about of a particularly well-educated digger writing in the interpretation box "two stones in a line, equidistant from one another"

[YorkBadger]

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)

[Drumcharry]

Two instances spring to mind:
The first where under the soil type on a sheet was written just 'worms a' plenty'

and the eminent and very likeable university professor who discovered what he thought was a dessicated and preserved human brain within a skull on a european training excavation, further investigation showed it to be a large and very edible fungus!

[Austin Ainsworth]

One that made me chuckle recently was the description on several cut sheets for the sides and base - the description for both of them simply read "Yes".

[helenclaire]

Is it wrong that this topic has now inspired me to be more inventive with my context sheets? I'm sure I could stratigically infuriate select persons by doing this...oh the power. I'm also now worried that I may have written something really stupid...

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

helenclaire-don't worry about it,even lifers (like me) still occaisionally write stupid things on our sheets.
Last year a friend described a features cut and then put "but this could be an illusion or my imagination"[?]

[Dirty Boy]

I do remember getting very bored with writing sheets for a pit with about 30 odd fills in it.

The pit ended up having delicious cream and jam fills.


4563 - "Strawberry jam with frequent sub-angular pip inclusions"






Leading a crack team of archaeologists in the hunt for death or glory.

No-one's died yet and I think we lost the glory down the back of the sofa.....