45past horizons The professor's calculations were obviously wrong Quotes for archaeologists Taken from the BAJR site hut While working on a large site in London and becoming increasingly hacked off as the months went by, it seemed that I was being asked to dig more than my fair share of the large features. While others were working in groups, digging ankle deep gullies, I was digging quarry pits, alone! One of the books I was reading at the time during the lunch breaks provided a quote that still stands out and sums up my memories of that site. " The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel". ( Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum) Austin Ainsworth I saw this at the start of the sci- fi show Andromeda… " Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.... and those who don't learn their history, well they are just doomed". Seems to sum up the nature of our profession. Dirty Dave Lincoln From The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: " There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend; those with loaded guns and those that dig. You dig". Always seemed to me to sum up the relationship between archaeologists and developers. Curator Kid Fun Page... archaeology can be fun... honest " What you call hell, he calls home". Colonel Trautmann in First Blood', commenting on the fact that Rambo is a bit of a masochist and loves futile watching briefs in the p* ssing rain and sleet on the Scottish Borders. Bier Keller A couple of Biblical quotes to start with: " Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set". ( Proverbs 22: 28) " He who digs a pit will fall into it". ( Ecclesiastes 10: 8, showing that even the Bible acknowledges Sod's Law) John Walford

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