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9th January 2010, 10:08 AM
Are you having problems? Is the weather causing projects to be mothballed? Are you getting paid.. or sitting in a room waiting for work to start with no pay -
How is it going out there? :face-huh:
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9th January 2010, 06:31 PM
Heard from Lucy
Quote:we are whacking the frozen ground with mattocks and managing to go down maybe 5 cm each day, and with sore arms. It was -11 yesterday and we sat in the cars yesterday until it warmed up to about -5
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10th January 2010, 12:05 AM
I was out doing geophysics in Leicestershire last week. Setting out the survey grid seemed to take ages, as the ground was solid and we had to use a lump hammer and a steel pin to make holes for each of our marker canes. The snow itself wasn't a big problem because it wasn't particularly deep, but if we get another few inches tomorrow then the job will get a lot harder.
I do wonder how the profession might cope if this turns into a really hard winter, like the infamous one of '63. Would units survive if the weather blocked the roads and halted fieldwork for weeks on end, or would that be the last straw for some of them?
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10th January 2010, 08:53 AM
Thanks for that cheery thought John :face-approve:
:0 However you are right... the excavations... how the hell are you digging in this?
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10th January 2010, 09:07 AM
From Facebook (same question)
Richard Shultz My last field project was partially canceled due to snow, but fortunately it was near the end of the day, which just meant we got back to the beer a little sooner than expected. It did thwart the site recording phase until a more clement season is at hand. Recording prehistoric sites at 6000 ft. in winter with wind chill pushing zero degrees or below is just insane.
Nick Ryan well the windchills reached -45 here but i dont think there was any archaeology going on here in the midwest US not much does until late spring, do to insanely cold weather.
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10th January 2010, 08:28 PM
Been snowed of since thursday with half pay, will be again tomorrow and possibly tuesday as well!
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10th January 2010, 10:51 PM
pooop and double pooop
still waiting to hear about a job I have... the phone is quiet!
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11th January 2010, 02:22 PM
Carrying out a fieldwalking survey with at least a foot of snow everywhere. Going really quickly as there is no bending down to lift and bag those pesky finds.
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11th January 2010, 02:41 PM
Isn’t that a bit of a pointless exercise and going to lead to a distortion in the record?
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11th January 2010, 03:32 PM
GASP :0 certainly beats finding stuff! hmmm... huge tracts of England declared finds free... :p
What's the snow doing to Archaeology work?
