28th December 2012, 11:08 AM
Quote:in a commercial environment, worrying about... a couple of fragments of animal bone is way down the list of needsBut if those are fragments of chicken bone from an Iron Age site, they could be archaeologically and culturally the most important things there. Can you trust diggers to identify them and bring them to your attention? And if they did, would you believe them enough to have them verified by a specialist? Or would they just be labelled "Bird bone" and archived?