From a customer request, we have brought out of the Vault an Irish Turtle brooch from the 10th C.  When I saw the piece, I was hoping for more pieces to be found from Viking Dublin.  Apparently, that is not to be!  Another reenactor let me know that the Irish contractor bulldozed the entire site into the Irish Sea, rather than wait for the archeologists to do their work.

A friend I used to work with wife was from Greece.  Her brother was a contractor out of Athens and my friend said his brother-in-law never "saw" anything old.  If you did "see" anything the work could be delayed for years waiting for the site to be cleared for his work to be done.

I understand how this can happen.  Here in New Mexico a man was digging a new basement and came across several graves.  They were old, from the Civil War.  He called the archeologists and they did their work.  The whole Civil War in New Mexico was so limited they were able to identify all of the soldiers and bury them in a proper cemetery with their names on gravestones.

Then, finally the man could finish his basement!