13th September 2005, 06:59 PM
I once heard a former county archaeologist airily tell some visitors that 'of course you can only get to a certain level without a degree.' I was somewhat irked as all the best field archaeologists I work with didn't go to university. I did and I feel my degree has been of bugger all use in respect to promotion. You know how in all of those films where someone finds a perfectly preserved Greek/Roman city which has happily lain undiscovered for 2000 years and then within half a day an earthquake/volcano wipes it out. Well the day field archaeology becomes a meritocracy is the day the Cotswolds Fault (or whatever) singes the whole of Britain with firey lava.