Vent: That volunteer dig supervisor who shushed me over a Roman coin fragment

I was on a community dig outside Bath two summers ago and bent down to pick up a tiny piece of pottery that looked like a coin rim, but the supervisor snapped at me to stop touching things before I could even check it with my fingers. He gave me a whole lecture about proper protocol in front of twenty people, but then later admitted the piece was probably just a modern bottle cap anyway. Has anyone else run into a site boss who got way too strict about small stuff and killed the excitement for new volunteers?

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miaa414d ago

The "lecture in front of twenty people" part is what would've sent me packing right then.

viola1713d ago

Twenty people watching that lecture? I would have started taking a bow, personally, since he clearly wanted an audience for his little performance. Nothing kills the fun of finding old junk faster than someone acting like you cracked the Rosetta Stone with a bottle cap.