4th September 2013, 10:10 AM
trowel or mattock everything's a sample of some sort, its all wood for the trees. When anybody says sampling to me its mostly an environmental specialist cost that someone has mostly arbitrary inflicted and you normally find out that the fill from the ditch had plants and animals that liked wet places with some plants and animals that did not and must have felled in. Obviously if you don't get this type of result then you have to go back and reconsider if it was a ditch after all. A very similar thing happens with pits. Sometimes there is a rumour from the east that metal/ceramic working was undertaken in the past and this brings out its own breeds of samplers often closely followed by something called an eh science officer which are probably the most pointless form of existence I have ever come across hence the world being populated by diggers with magnets in plastic bags who have discovered that there's iron just about everywhere
Reason: your past is my past