Draft layout for a small finds report

[John Michaels]

Referring to the earlier posting, I thought I'd send a personal request
with more details.

Young Digger needing a little friendly advice.
I have been working in a commercial archaeology company as basic trowel
fodder for a year and have now been given the task of writing the small
finds report from my first site. I have been trying to find the "IFA
guidelines for finds work" to give me an idea of the layout for reports.
Would anyone be able to fax me these guidelines or a basic draft so that
I know the type of style to use.
I would appreciate any help as this is my first taste of real research
and I am hoping to impress my bosses by doing this without supervision,
so that I may get more experience of this type in the future.

John Michaels

[John Carr]

In article <MPG.118bdab2c...@news.demon.co.uk>, on Sat, 24 Apr 1999
14:42:51 +0100, jo...@jmichaels.freeserve.co.uk said...

>
> I have been working in a commercial archaeology company as basic trowel
> fodder for a year and have now been given the task of writing the small
> finds report from my first site. I have been trying to find the "IFA
> guidelines for finds work" to give me an idea of the layout for reports.
> Would anyone be able to fax me these guidelines or a basic draft so that
> I know the type of style to use.
>
>

Get copies of the reports your firm turns in. Follow that. They should
also have similar reports by their competitors. Both will give you a
suitable model. Reinventing the wheel makes no sense and if your
reports follow some theoretical model, say IFA's, more closely than
others your employers have done... you will only provoke rather than
impress.

jc