28th May 2011, 05:37 PM
My moderate supervising experience is that on a lot of rural sites in particular the archaeological deposits tend to be all the same apart from varying quantities of rocks (or in the case of my current job, gravel with varying amounts of mid brown slightly silty sand soil), but that the context sheets end up with soil descriptions involving anything from pure clay to pure sand, and in a wide range of colours (one guy invariably describes brown as grey or green, we're not sure how to break it to him he's colour-blind....), so sometimes a certain amount of modification of the site record has to be carried out in order to produce a remotely realistic report - and I long since learnt to largely ignore on-site 'interpretations' which frequently belong purely in the realms of the Fortean Times, or possibly a secure institution....