very first crew - 3 guys start to build a stadium
it was the 7th october and turned out to be the road widening crew just measuring out and putting in posts - it seems this junction is gonna have to be widened for the site lorries
that week it was all go, as a few days later there was a different crew - all highvis jacketed up too - but this lot had ARCHAEOLOGY on the back
they put posts in and they messed about with theodolites - i asked one bloke what they expected to find and he said
" oh some stone age tools, flint arrowheads, that type of thing"
"a neolithic settlement?" i asked
"i shouldn't think so"
they were around for 3-4 days and then it all went quiet again for a coupla weeks
AND THEN THIS WEEK...
well i thought that was it all done for the archaeology, a fine and subtly science, but now the crew has returned in force with some serious heavy plant machinery
don't believe a word if somebody tells you this archaeology game is all about painstaking hours of carefully rubbing a piece of rock with a toothbrush, slowly uncovering delicate artifacts
nope, it seems you just charge in there with two industrial diggers and a dumper truck
so theyve spent the week landscaping the area to look like a dirt-bike racetrack - i'm hoping theyre lovingly recreating a scene out of Junior Kick-Start from days gone by
next week ill definitely try to interview an archaeologist - praps we'll get to see some of their finds or maybe i'll just ask to have a go on the all terrain quadbiking!!!
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