28th December 2012, 01:19 PM
P Prentice Wrote:...what is wrong with getting a digger to write up...a few scraps of animal bone and possibly therefore giver their career a bit of a lift?
To give a fairly recent example from my own back-log, no one on-site realised at the time the significance of a couple of cow vertebrae in an undated shallow pit - till the bone specialist pointed out they were actually from an auroch...
If it had been left to us/me, the size of the bones would have suggested a post-med cow and the site would merely have got a couple of sentences in the up-coming publication, along the lines of 'no significant archaeology found in these trenches', rather than spawning a dozen C14 dates and plans for a major up-coming excavation. I think maybe that specialist report was probably cost-effective in the long run? :face-thinks: