Archaeological Excavation 
may point his remarks must be drawn from a com- 
paratively narrow field, but he believes that the 
broad principles that should underlie archaeological 
excavation do not vary with locality, and this all 
the more because one of them is that the nature 
of every site must be taken into careful considera- 
tion before any lessons can be safely drawn from 
the yield of the work. 
This essay has been written with the idea chiefly 
of entertaining the many who by their interest and 
subscriptions have helped in the work of recovering 
the past, and partly in the hope that, if it makes 
even slightly for the accomplishment of better 
work in the future, it may not have been written 
in vain; and the writer has dared to put his views 
with the more freedom because he has never been 
in charge of an excavation, and therefore need not 
fear the reproach that what he preaches he did not 
practise. 
Lastly—at the present time such a book as 
this should not appear without an apology for 
its impertinence; yet this will perhaps seem less 
gross to those who look confidently to a future in 
which we shall be free once more to care about 
the past. 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
INTRODUCTION . : : : ete hit 
CHAP 
I GENERAL . 4 ; ‘ ; : i 
TT --PARBICULAR, : : : : 7 
III QUALIFICATIONS : ; Saks | 
IV THE OUTFIT AND ITS USE : L3G 
V SOME QUESTIONS OF MORALITY aie 
VI PUBLICATION . : , : Sa sige 
VII EPILOGUE ; ; op’ ..y63 
APPENDIX A, B, C, Dp; E : 4 65 
INDEX.” : : : : ee GO 
