Some good comments and statements about the diggers.

Of note is that the majority of references in several fields i.e.: ceramics,
glass, buttons, military  items etc. come from the "collector"

This swill continue and some archaeologists will not even admit to working on
these type studies because there is not enough anthropology in them.

That OK because the same is many times the case in History if your subject is
not broad enough or heavens forbid that it is a local history.

All of the data is building blocks. As long as small studies are discouraged
and derided by scholars in & out of academia we will not get the type of
studies mentioned.

Feeling nettlesome on a cloudy day........