Excavation – Wor Barrow under excavation
'In fifteen years Pitt Rivers transformed excavation from a pleasant hobby of barrow digging to an arduous science'. Up to this time antiquarians excavated burial mounds in the hope of finding objects of value and interest. The amount of information they were able to derive about the remains they had discovered was extremely limited. Pitt Rivers was the first archaeologist to record his discoveries in such great detail, paying attention to the importance of the ordinary as well as the extraordinary.
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