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Geoffrey Scarre, « 7. The Ethics of Digging », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.rsocxk
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[W]hile the Workmen made several Ditches, they fell upon divers Urnes, but earnestly, and carelessly digging, they broke all they met with, and finding nothing but Ashes, or burnt Cinders, they scattered what they found.Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne’s account of the chance discovery and thoughtless destruction of Roman sepulchral urns near Brampton in Norfolk is the stuff of archaeologists’ nightmares. Fortunately, this particular story had a happy ending: following the antiquarian knig...