My professor said to always check the spoil heap first... he was right

On a dig in southern Spain last summer, we were stuck on a feature for days. My old professor always said, "The real story is in what they threw away, not what they kept." So I spent a morning sifting through the backfill pile from the 1920s excavation. Found a tiny bronze coin fragment everyone else missed... it dated the whole layer to the late 3rd century. Changed our whole timeline for the site. Anyone else have a simple piece of advice that saved a project?

2 comments

2 Comments

zara_patel5714d ago

My old foreman always said to trust the original build first. I've seen too many people waste time chasing ghosts in the rubble.

hart.charlie14d ago

Wait, your foreman said that? That's wild. @zara_patel57, the original build is often the problem. You gotta check the changes first, not just trust old work.