2nd July 2013, 05:04 PM
Sith Wrote:I'm not knocking what sounds like a great result, but would I be correct in assuming that it was the result of a monitoring condition following unexpectedly blank evaluation results? If I was the client, I would have been asking why no one was able to give me an inkling that such riches were there before I started work and had to wait for the archaeologists to mop them up. Unless we're talking about strip and record, which is a different kettle of fish.
Not my jobs (slight involvement in no.3), but think I know which referred to :-
(I) was, as Jack says, while digging a big deep trench for emergency repair to a sewer, so no eval possible, sadly the Victorians had tunnelled the sewer under the mosaic
(II) - when you've already re-routed your pipeline past all the cropmarks etc you're still bound to hit stuff, sods law, still cheaper than hitting the known stuff
(III) - only eval was peering down some GI pits in the p***ing rain (very, very miserable couple of days out, and hopeless for trying to spot stuff), if the client doesn't want to pay for geofizz and trial trenches then they takes their chances