ABSTRACT
Among the various carry-ons under discussion were on-screen trenches not meeting health and safety requirements and diggers being advised by programme makers to get agents. Apparently the team behind one particular series wanted the farmer on whose land they were about to dig to greet the arriving archaeologists. The farmer refused, so instead of revising the script a camera assistant was dressed up in suitably rustic garb and acted out the part of the recalcitrant son of the soil (Neil Mortimer [personal communication] on the 2004 meeting of the Institute of Field Archaeologists ([IFA]))
