12th October 2006, 11:34 AM
Too many to think of but...
1. watching a senior IFA member discount large quantities of Iron Age features on the basis of them being simply "black natural"
2. Being asked by an MIFA to further reduce a pipeline spread by a metres depth on the basis that we hadnt encountered archaeology yet.This despite the fact that the team had been excavating features and inhumations from the level that said MIFA was currently standing on as he issued his gem of wisdom
3. After months of being given the runaround by a certain developer who was in the habit of machining huge areas of the site away when I went for lunch- hearing the enormous booming tones of a City Curator verbally reducing said developer to a quivering wreck in his own office. Finally-a Curator worth his salary! Big up Plymouth CC by the way.
4. Watching a fieldie diligently recording a section whilst failing to notice that whilst he was in the site office, a brass three pin plug socket complete with recharging mobile phone had been screwed into his section.
5. Watching a fieldie deconstruct the site office in protest at not gettin a lift early to watch an England game
6. The quarry-blasting episode whilst I was in deep thought in the portaloo
7. The enthusiastic student who, whilst demonstrating the sharp qualities of flint upon an article of clothing in front of a crowd of parents and children drew blood.Lots of it.Oops.
8. Having to explain to my boss why he had received no updates during my time on site as I had run the phone over with the mini-bus on day one.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
1. watching a senior IFA member discount large quantities of Iron Age features on the basis of them being simply "black natural"
2. Being asked by an MIFA to further reduce a pipeline spread by a metres depth on the basis that we hadnt encountered archaeology yet.This despite the fact that the team had been excavating features and inhumations from the level that said MIFA was currently standing on as he issued his gem of wisdom
3. After months of being given the runaround by a certain developer who was in the habit of machining huge areas of the site away when I went for lunch- hearing the enormous booming tones of a City Curator verbally reducing said developer to a quivering wreck in his own office. Finally-a Curator worth his salary! Big up Plymouth CC by the way.
4. Watching a fieldie diligently recording a section whilst failing to notice that whilst he was in the site office, a brass three pin plug socket complete with recharging mobile phone had been screwed into his section.
5. Watching a fieldie deconstruct the site office in protest at not gettin a lift early to watch an England game
6. The quarry-blasting episode whilst I was in deep thought in the portaloo
7. The enthusiastic student who, whilst demonstrating the sharp qualities of flint upon an article of clothing in front of a crowd of parents and children drew blood.Lots of it.Oops.
8. Having to explain to my boss why he had received no updates during my time on site as I had run the phone over with the mini-bus on day one.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)