14th June 2011, 07:10 PM
Marcus Brody Wrote:So wouldn't making them available online encourage people to think a bit more about what they're writing down and how clearly they're conveying information about the context they excavated? And wouldn't this also be helpful when writing up the site, by ending the scourge of the context sheet that's blank except for its number? If I knew that future employers might be able to assess the standard of my recording and interpretation before hiring me, I'd be tempted to do as complete and comprehensive a job as possible (which I always do anyway, of course)
:0they'd spend even more time in the cabin pointlessly tarting up their paperwork than they do now! :0
Some people's recording is rubbish but that doesn't make them bad diggers, just have to keep them away from the cameras, permatrace and paperwork as much as possible....bring back the good old days when the supervisors and site assistants (before everyone mysteriously got promoted to that position!) did all the recording because they'd demonstrated they could, photographers photographed, planning assistants planned and diggers dug - at least there was some consistency and rather less naive s**te written. Thank god (or deity/nature spirit/no-corporeal being or none of the foregoing) for red biros