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Funniest Context Sheets - garybrun - 14th June 2008
Do you know what I really like about the BAJR site?
You can be "really down to earth" when you want to be and have a good sense of humour.
keep them coming
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Funniest Context Sheets - BAJR Host - 29th June 2008
Just remembered one from a small test trench quite a few years back
Hard Compact Stoney ground..........
Turned out later... it was a wall! [:p]
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
Funniest Context Sheets - wombat - 4th July 2008
This one kept me guessing:
'flints gravitationally sorted to a medial locus'
This was a fill description for a pit. The same gentleman had recorded some 30 plus fills in this pit, all of which had the same silliness going on.
Funniest Context Sheets - gumbo - 4th July 2008
A famous archaeologist i know was fond of the term 'humano-turbation' quite stunning...
Funniest Context Sheets - Bier Keller - 14th July 2008
"Reason for sample? Eddie told me to do it"
I know that several features on a site near the Toon a few years back were recorded as being associated with a ritual manatee fighting arena. I was not there mesel', i hasten to add
Just give me a cold Becks
Funniest Context Sheets - Beardstroker - 15th July 2008
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host
Just remembered one from a small test trench quite a few years back
Hard Compact Stoney ground..........
Turned out later... it was a wall! [:p]
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
I came across another one the other day, which recorded a wall as a "dumped deposit"[hm]
Rather a cruel description of what was actually one of the most solid foundation walls I've ever seen from the Roman period
Funniest Context Sheets - wombat - 16th July 2008
aaah gumbo, i think we are talking about the same man. i too recognise the term humano-turbation
Funniest Context Sheets - shovelnomore - 17th July 2008
I can verify the manatee enclosure. They were actually herding them. I believe the guy who translated the latin documents found a reference to the 'campus dugongis monachorum'. Or at least that's what was said at the time.
Funniest Context Sheets - Digitaldigging - 18th July 2008
I've heard of dinoturbation - it's a palaeontalogical term usually used to describe the churning up of sediments by dinosaur feet. There's a bit more about it in the link below. Humano-turbation is a bit of a cringer though.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7XNB-4KV2YMG-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=f801cae5da0ff32db7fa46c606366c51
Funniest Context Sheets - mattockbreaker - 22nd July 2008
I remember one morning in a january when a friend of mine recorded a new context as a friable white/irridescent flaky-powder. It was snow!