7th December 2006, 11:18 PM
I suppose I ougt to plug the archaeological archives forum's draft best practice guide
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archives/index.html
I would put the onus on having to justify the discard of archaeological finds, and only after proper specialist involvement at the earliest possible point in the project design process ( a la IFA S&G and Map2 etc. In my experience it is entirely reasonable to assume that if you are ecavating a roman villa ( or indeed Roman anything) large quantaties of CBM can be expected, so a proper on site sampling strategy can be agreed. It also needs to be properly implemented with the full informed involvement of the field staff (I'll stop there before CK accuses me of doing my stuck record routine. Ah too late....)
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archives/index.html
I would put the onus on having to justify the discard of archaeological finds, and only after proper specialist involvement at the earliest possible point in the project design process ( a la IFA S&G and Map2 etc. In my experience it is entirely reasonable to assume that if you are ecavating a roman villa ( or indeed Roman anything) large quantaties of CBM can be expected, so a proper on site sampling strategy can be agreed. It also needs to be properly implemented with the full informed involvement of the field staff (I'll stop there before CK accuses me of doing my stuck record routine. Ah too late....)