With increasing frequency, small units are foregoing the preparation and delivery of dbas/method statements and project designs.After enquiring as to why this is, I was told that to be competative and have any hope of winning contracts, small units pare down their tenders by ommitting some stages of the process.As a result, I have been a part of a good few excavations where the team arrive on site-have no idea of what is there-dig it how they see fit and then leave.One notable Principal Arch who had been with the same unit for some time informed me that he had not seen any of the above in over twenty years.How ubiquitous is this? This surely makes a mockery of standards and professionalism and obviously is encouraged by a commercial environment that is left un-mauled by an institute offering optional standards.How widespread is this?

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

Is the current Prospect Pay claim in the public domain and have the membership voted on it?

Peter Wardle

Hope everyone has had good christmas. Have taken opportunity of break to explore the net.. Has anyone else noticed that archaeological solutions has quitely reappeared as an RAO? Same staff, same standards etc ?? During the ban they were allowed to trade, not fined, and after a short break allowed to rejoin?? shouldn't a report by the IFA be available showing the findings, and how it was dealt with? Whitewash springs to mind.

Hello all,
was hoping someone may be able to point me in the direction of any literature concerning the importance of water (preferably rivers) in the Neolithic/Bronze Age... All i can find are statements that say yes water was important, and then no explanation as to why.

Thanks very much

RACH

So what do you want for 2007..

polite ... possible ... pathetic ... profane ... premature ?

Go on.... spoil yerself...

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

Tiz persisting it down, site aint digging.Rightyho-you can all wash pot or lose a days money..........
How do we get out of washing pot......:face-huh:

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

So, what does it for you? Can you open the curtains without gettin out of bed on boxin day morning? Give the missus a centre -parting uninvited? In general, it seems that most sites have their own phantom farters,often on hand to emmit at the most innorportune moments.Sprouts seem to produce quality high notes and the baritones can be prompted with a bit of chrissie pud.What does it for you? Whats the recipe?

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

Quick wash programme. 40 degrees, 2 Persil gel tablets, one calgon tablet and a capful of fabric softener...

Have just emptied the washing machine of a couple of jackets plus assorted other site gear, and at the bottom was a beautifully washed (and very small) sherd of possibly Late Iron Age pot[:I]

Must've come out of my other half's pocket couldn't have been mine!!

You can always tell a Brummie... but you can't tell him much

Just a link to get you all paranoid about your ex university colleagues [?]

http://www.archaeologyfieldwork.com/cgi-...1164169099





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Merry Christmas all, have a safe one.
Drink, eat and be merry.

Digger