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My professor told me to focus on soil layers at the Roman site in York, and it completely changed how I see excavation.
He said 'the real story is in the dirt, not the stones,' and after finding a perfectly preserved leather shoe in a trench we almost skipped, I finally get it, so what's the best piece of field advice you've ever gotten?
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xena_thomas9119d ago
My old crew boss told me to always check the spoil heap twice. Said the new guys toss the good stuff with the rocks. Found a whole intact clay pipe that way. His point was you miss things when you're only looking for the big finds. That shoe story proves it. The small stuff in the dirt tells you how people actually lived.
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the_anthony19d ago
My first dig I almost threw out a tiny carved bone bead for the same reason!
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