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"If you find anything, we'll split it 50/50" - heard that far too many times. Generally respond with "If you want half, you can dig this bloody hole then".
As for the debate on public awareness I'd settle for an architect or building company understanding the planning process for now, let alone the general public.
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Seriously though, I think that the majority of the general public with an honest interest in local history and archaeology actually have an idea of what is going on, but they are the ones who's sensible questions you don't remember or who watch quietly.
The people who yell daft things through Heras fencing are the same people who hit soap opera villains with their handbags in supermarkets
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On another thread somebody said;
"You can come and dig my garden, if you like Peter?"
Yeah done a few gardens in my time. These days its a bit restrictive if you are an archaeologist, the WSI has to be written and approved before the onions can be planted. Scheduled Ancient monuments are a bit of a problem because shrubs are not allowed and of course a rose is a tree. Of course these days there are specialist garden archaeologists but they are not big enough to have formed a specialist interest group.
So what's the contract?
I have one garden job on at the moment and my dog kennel project might start up again on phase II. As I have said elsewhere real people real archaeology real projects.
Dr Peter Wardle
(The past is a serious matter ....)
(David is back today and I will accept the reprimand if on a bit of fun thread I am being too serious)
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I once told a county set type woman in Cardiff that we were checkin to see if the foundations of the new asylum seekers hostel would be ok in Bute park!
She didnt like it much!
deep
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Quote:quote:Of course these days there are specialist garden archaeologists but they are not big enough to have formed a specialist interest group.
That'll be the Seven Dwarfs... no longer under contract to Disney, they are now archaeological contractors, ideally suited to the confined conditions of garden archaeology...
Perfect example of adult re-education and equal opportunties in the workplace..
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Quote:quote:That'll be the Seven Dwarfs... no longer under contract to Disney, they are now archaeological contractors, ideally suited to the confined conditions of garden archaeology...
Those will be the
Industrial Dwarves that I first encountered in Iceland and have feared ever since. Be afraid people....
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...with a shovel and spade and a hand grenade.. HI HO... HI Ho
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by deepdigger
I once told a county set type woman in Cardiff that we were checkin to see if the foundations of the new asylum seekers hostel would be ok in Bute park!
She didnt like it much!
deep
Heh heh! My site surveying lecturer at college (construction, not archaeology) took the previous year's class to the local park to do a practical setting out test. An elderly lady asked what he was doing and he strted to point out where the road and houses would be, and she clouted him around the head with her handbag! Serves him right really
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I confess I've done much the same in my previous career while pottering about with level, staff, tapes and things. With passers-by or residents in earshot I called to my colleague "You know I think we could get six lanes in here".
Which reminds me of another old silly question - when peering through a level or theodolite, you get small kids (and teenagers) asking you "take my picture mister".
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
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Similar to Invisible Man, I was asked what I was filming when taking levels in Dublin.
