Funniest Context Sheets

[BAJR Host]

Freudian??


"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers

[mattockman]

potentially

[moxymad]

although not on a context sheet but in a report was the phrase " a punitive pit" .... the mind boggles

dumper

[BAJR Host]

like an elephant trap but with academic barbed comments at the base.

"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers

[stonecirclegirl]

Love this topic... keep em coming. I've just totally ruined my other half's viewing of the 10 o'clock news by laughing loudly all over it..

'There is no great genius without some touch of madness'... that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

A few years ago I saw a skeleton sheet,the sketch looked like a road-kill of a very deformed mutant!
There was even a squashed fly on it![xx(]

[RedEarth]

quote:
There was even a squashed fly on it![xx(]

Had some site drawings scanned for digitisation, which also included a squashed fly. This was duly digitised as well by some wag and placed in a prominant positioning rearing over the rest of the drawing like something out of Dr Who!

[andy.bicket]

I must admit, as a "geoarchaeologist", I had a debilatating preoccupation with crowbarring in some extra details about the sediments etc on things I excavated during commercial excavations.

A particularly fine example was of a collection of small stake-holes in a granary building in NE Scotland from the Late Iron Age exhibiting some cutting-edge Roman technology. They were cut into a clay deposit that was only found in this one building. I waxed lyrical about sourcing clays and floor construction for the entire back of the context sheet. Tragically, by the next week I had begun taking up the floor, by the time the offending sheet was texted to everyone else on site, on top of lots of scoring out it only said "ICE WEDGE" in massive letters.

[kevin wooldridge]

Not really a context sheet but......In the days when evaluation reports used to get read before being sent out....we had a system where you submitted a draft to our 'editor' (in reality our boss) and he suggested text changes, spelling corrections, etc before it was sent out to the client. As befitting an archaeologist who suffered most of his academic career before the onset of computers, corrections were indicated by red pen throughout the draft.

One of my colleagues showed me an example of a correction that suggested our boss was having a bad day. The author had written that the centre of the floor of a barn he was surveying was 'somewhat depressed'. Our boss corrected him - "Can you find a better description to describe the irregular surface of this floor. 'Somewhat depressed' is how I feel reading this garbage!!"

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Spotted this a while back on a cut sheet- "box cut into midden,filled by 506 & 507"-underneath was wrote "why has this got a cut number??"-apparently it was done to establish the depth of the cut feature,which also had a number!!
Talk about overkill[:o)]