| Just a few tips to make
your, and your colleagues life easier when excavating: |
Learn
To Write
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There is nothing quite
as frustrating during post ex that illegible hand
writing. After all that care
of removal and bagging, the last thing you want
to find is that no-one remembers where it came
from.
So: write carefully -using block capitals helps
make
sure you can distinguish between numbers - try crossing
your sevens
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Take notes |
Everyone has to hand in a report. Keeping an up-to-date
diary will really help.
It may seem boring, and
annoying when all you want is an end of day pint or
to go to sleep, but it is a vital
skill if you are to go into full time archaeology
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Look around |
Every so often, during
a break, when you are waiting for something to become
available before
you can do any work, have a look around the rest of
the site.
Make sure you remember that your little trench isn't
its own little world, it is but a small fork-full of
the great cake that is the site. And, like a cake, things
in one part of the site can may run throughout, helping
you avoid the raisins.
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Ask |
If you don't know
something, ask. It's very unlikely that people will
think of you as in idiot if
you do. However, if you don't ask and repeatedly get
things wrong...
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Have fun... but
be daft |
Enjoy yourself, it's a
pretty unique experience and one where you can make
some very good friends so pass up on all the opportunities
for the pub.
On the other hand, don't be reckless. You are in job,
a backwards job admittedly, where you pay them rather
than the other way around, but you still have responsibilities.
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