In Archaeology from the Earth Mortimer Wheeler describes how, at the end
of the working day, he would get his students to cut a section through the
spoil tip, clean it up and interpret it.  I think the moral was not to
read too much into complex stratigraphy!
 
 
Dr Matthew H Johnson
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