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few years later found one of Europe's oldest bronze age wooden track ways that we must have chopped through (because we didn't record it) thinking they were just bog oaks. We weren't very good archaeologists.
Great story, did lol.
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And it only continues, just think of the priceless historical remains you've already obliterated in and around your house. :)
Nef
Oliver Schick
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When I was an archaeologist, we were working on some test pits on the site of the extension of Belmarsh prison. It was all peat bog and we had to take 20m x 5m trenches down through 5m of peat to get to any archaeology. All by hand. I found a love for a long handled, pointed shovel. I was able to be pretty surgical as well as agricultural by the end.
Problem was it was well below the waterline so each trench had to be fully pumped out every morning.
I say we had to dig down 5m. Another site nearby that opened a few years later found one of Europe's oldest bronze age wooden track ways that we must have chopped through (because we didn't record it) thinking they were just bog oaks. We weren't very good archaeologists.