28th September 2012, 09:40 AM
As you can see from my profile picture I use two types of krazters for want of a better term, both based on a powerful pulling action with very little sideways strain on the wrist. If I use a spade its an old army landrover spade, I likes the curves for getting into curved corners and that I go for little and often rather than look how big and long my spade is. If theirs a lot of spoil I try and get a machine in.
What has happened to me in the distant past is that I have been on open area excavations where the moron stripping the site back has stood there with a trowel and then made everybody clean back. I was in such a fowl temper that I did half the site in short order only to have the twat say that the surface was different to those hoeing and trowling and to which I agreed but pointed out that I had found all the features in the area; and so bloody what and told him that he was a twat and that it was probably genetic. He still insisted that they trowel back the area which I had cleaned finding nothing new but then attempted to claim that the ditch junctions were now much clearer. This was about 15 years ago, the site's still not published and accross the site I pulled out about ten compleat romano brit pots which was bizzar as they were amost all in isolated contexts and nobody else found any. Such is the way of the kratzer.
What has happened to me in the distant past is that I have been on open area excavations where the moron stripping the site back has stood there with a trowel and then made everybody clean back. I was in such a fowl temper that I did half the site in short order only to have the twat say that the surface was different to those hoeing and trowling and to which I agreed but pointed out that I had found all the features in the area; and so bloody what and told him that he was a twat and that it was probably genetic. He still insisted that they trowel back the area which I had cleaned finding nothing new but then attempted to claim that the ditch junctions were now much clearer. This was about 15 years ago, the site's still not published and accross the site I pulled out about ten compleat romano brit pots which was bizzar as they were amost all in isolated contexts and nobody else found any. Such is the way of the kratzer.
Reason: your past is my past