Quote:quote:It's aimed at making troops aware they shouldn't pick up and bring home artifacts and also to avoid causing damage to sites - such as an incident after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when U.S. troops built a helicopter pad on the ruins of Babylon and filled their sandbags with archaeological fragments from the ancient city.

Teresa Hawtin was asked to identify some objects found by a construction worker underneath the floorboards of an old house. Photographs can be found at:

http://www.teresahawtin.co.uk/mysteryobjects.htm

so... come on... surely somebody must know





"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

As we seem to be talking about trowels...

what do you use...

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

Badger - have you heard any more about Balmerino?

I was there last week - the building work on the abbey farm steading is progressing as per these images

http://ourpasthistory.com/Gallery/balmer...m-steading

The barn other side of the road is still in situ!

Website for responsible Metal Detecting
http://www.ourpasthistory.com/md/indexa.htm

Quote:quote:"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

I note that there is a thread on Britarch about getatrowel. This thread contains second hand complaints about getatrowel.

Peter Wardle

I seem to remember a thread discussing whether annual leave was in addition to statutory holidays or not, but can't find it. (Maybe I imagined it!)

Anyway, this address http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/holidays/index.html

leads to the latest on this issue. It doesn't suggest what a reasonable remuneration might be if you have to work a Bank Holiday however......

After a long struggle, the French archaeological trades unions have succeeded in forcing the creation of 350 full time jobs at INRAP, the national public preventive archaeology organisation. The decision was announced to the unions by the French Culture Minister. The contracts take effect from the 1st June 2007. There were already 1,450 employees (archaeologists and other staff) in the organisation, so the total will now rise to 1,800.

The transformation of what was a fragile archaeological economy into a mature, adult one has been long and difficult. INRAP is not only the principal archaeological contractor in France but also has wide ranging responsibilities for education and outreach and also for the publication (on paper and digitally) of the results of its work.
As in the United Kingdom, short term employees were discriminated against because of the uncertainty of their revenues. It was not only difficult to try to buy a house, it was very hard even renting a flat. Innumerable financial guarantees were demanded by prospective landlords. There was the fear of having an accident on site, which while covered by the excellent French Health Service, made the employees fear for their physical capacity to perform the same job, once they had recovered.

Indeed, the same fear led short term employees (CDDs in French) to accept orders and working conditions which were as illegal as they are dangerous.

The numbers of CDDs employed by INRAP is much greater than 350. So as to avoid any suspicion of favouritism, those given the long term contracts were chosen according to legal criteria which the French government should have been respecting. Those who had 10 months continuous employment at INRAP in 2006, and those who worked for a minimum of 18 months over the 3 year period from the 1st January 2004 until the 31st December 2006 were put on a list in strict order of the number of contract months worked.

Inevitably, some people will refuse to accept the contracts, which is their right. Others will choose part time working and be paid accordingly. As a result, other contracts will be made available which will make it possible to help colleagues who had worked very little over the period 2004-2006 for whatever reason, but who have worked for a considerable time since the creation of INRAP in 2001. Once again, the order of priority will be the number of months worked.

It should be noted that using the system of longevity in the organisation combats the all too prevalent bias and favouritism deeply entrenched in French society. It is not a perfect solution but it is neutral and transparent. Not only those who have been chosen but also those who have not been know why.


"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

http://www.cgt-culture.fr:80/publication...rticle=470

The law and preventive archaeology in France

Stay informed

The website of the CGT (basically the Union that represents archaeologists in France - like Prospect)

they have 5 grades of pay

There are five grades. The monthly salaries before tax are as follows (beginning and end of career)

1. Technical assistant (baccalauréat or A levels not required) 1682 € to 2924 € after 24 years service

2. Technician (A levels required) 1345 € to2505 € after 27 years service

3. Research assistant (Two years university study required) 1682 € to 2924 € after 29 years service

4 Researcher (Degree required) 1772 € to3445 € after 29 years service

5 Senior researcher (Doctorate required) 1938 € to 3688 after 30 years service


BAJR hope to form stronger links with the CGT and other European Unions over the coming Years (Spain is in the pipeline as well and I would like to link up more with Germany and Netherlands.) - Behind the scenes as well, BAJR is providing support to USA CRM archaeologists to help create a suitable system of pay and conditions that can be seen as standard (that is really in the lap of the Americans though - and we are only providing templates and other information)

And you thought I just twiddeled my thumbs :face-huh: and counted the money

Thanks to Peter McIntyre for contacting me and providing the information and the documents for the English Version of the CGT website.



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

On a completely pointless note the Fantasy Unit thread got me thinking in a Friday afternoon way about what football teams us BAJRites (perhaps unfortunately) follow.

Who are the team with most archaeological support?

I always sense that lower league teams are well represented amongst archaeologists? Is this correct?

What was peoples respective best moment of the season?

Ill see what sort of interest is and perhaps we can do some sort of BAJR fantasy football next season.

(PS I am interested in 'real' issues too but heh its Friday and im suffering end-of-season-itis).

For the record my team is Bristol Rovers, and my best moment this season was Sammy Igoe slotting home our third goal at the new wembley to take us up to League 1: mental!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmJ2c61gsHA