...and never mind the orange string (are you q u i t e sure it's not contemporary with the archaeology?) - someone's put a teiegraph pole right through the top of it. Bastard.
Postmen of inexplicability?
That's the title of my next book sorted.
It must have taken more than one man to raise that, and lets face it, it's a totem pole, so it would be Bastards, rather than the singular.