Warning: that volunteer dig coordinator on Bakers Lane told me to 'trust the grid' and we lost a whole burial context

He pointed at the string lines and said 'it's fine, just scrape to the chalk mark,' but the dark soil stain I hit was actually a Roman coin hoard edge, and now the site supervisor wants to rewrite the whole excavation plan, has anyone else dealt with a site lead who refuses to double check their own measurements?

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diana2012d ago

Oh man, that's rough. I've been burned by that same "trust the grid" attitude before, and honestly, the only thing that saved me was taking my own tape measure and level out there every single morning. You gotta check the strings yourself before you scrape anything, and mark the corners of the dark soil with flags so you can show the supervisor exactly where the context starts and ends. If the coin hoard edge is still intact, take photos with a scale bar right now and document every change in soil color before the plan gets rewritten, because once that context is gone, your evidence is gone too.