15th November 2005, 06:26 PM
The most 'valuable' thing I have ever found is a rather poor twisted copper torc.
Whenever machine drivers/foremen/banksmen ask - as they inevitably do - what is the best thing I have ever found, I tell them that it is very rare to find anything valuable... thus excusing my own lack of gold discoveries!
By the sound of it though, I have been talking through my hat. Have the majority of archaeologists found some gold (or other valuable-sounding thing)? Is there a north-south divide (I have not worked much in the south)? Or is it just me [:0]?
"So does your partner have a real job?" Asked of me by an interviewer for a supervisor post at a well known unit not that many years ago...
Whenever machine drivers/foremen/banksmen ask - as they inevitably do - what is the best thing I have ever found, I tell them that it is very rare to find anything valuable... thus excusing my own lack of gold discoveries!
By the sound of it though, I have been talking through my hat. Have the majority of archaeologists found some gold (or other valuable-sounding thing)? Is there a north-south divide (I have not worked much in the south)? Or is it just me [:0]?
"So does your partner have a real job?" Asked of me by an interviewer for a supervisor post at a well known unit not that many years ago...