Well, we've all been having a good laugh about Bonekickers at work. The weirdest thing is why it's called Bonekickers, but hey. It's pretty funny stuff. I just watched last night's episode ('Warriors') and I'm sure there was a good story in there somewhere! Okay, so you have to suspend your disbelief and try not to think too hard about things, but if you can do that it is fairly entertaining.

In the first episode, it all kicked off (ha) with some builders finding a coin. Although they don't want to hold up the development, they call in the expert archaeologists, who identify it as a Saracen coin. Now, if that had been real life, the builders probably wouldn't have told anyone about the coin, especially if they were worried about the development being held up! And if anyone had been told about it, it would probably be the council archaeologists. The planning archaeologist would get involved, in all likelihood. And if they'd asked us (for I am part of the planning archaeology team) about the coin, we'd have thought it had probably been brought back by someone from holiday, something like that. Just a chance loss. We wouldn't think 'Wow, there must be some dead Saracens buried here!'.

Ah, there are so many more things... I just felt sad that the programme has (so far) completely ignored the planning archaeologists (and indeed the whole planning process), instead focusing on a bunch of death-defying archaeologists who travel around solving mysteries. :)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 9:24 PM