10th June 2008, 06:11 PM
A few years ago I was working on a site with the Time Team filming us for one of their special progs,we was told on the first day that whoever makes the first find will be interviewed on camera and explain what they had-so to cut out that nonsence I relegated myself to shovelling out for the rest of the crew cleaning the trench.After about ten minutes I felt the shovel touch something and the archaeologist in me had to dig it up,out comes a catapult shaped bit of worked antler and promply I got grassed up as the first person to find owt!
The camera crew were brought over and for nearly twenty minutes I had to explain what it might be (especially the small groove round one of the prongs-I said it might have been cut to hold string in place),that over I started to walk of back to the trench when the REAL answer hit me-that was where i'd hit it with the shovel in the first place!![:I]
The camera crew were brought over and for nearly twenty minutes I had to explain what it might be (especially the small groove round one of the prongs-I said it might have been cut to hold string in place),that over I started to walk of back to the trench when the REAL answer hit me-that was where i'd hit it with the shovel in the first place!![:I]