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Reading some of the posts on other threads it occured to me that there is a difference in approach to how those working for contracting units and those working for consultancies deal with setting fieldwork projects up (ie costings, proj design etc). I know that this is where the two branches of the proffession overlap and I wonder if anybody had an idea of roughly how many fieldwork jobs (in percentage terms)actually involve archaeological consultants?
There is no alterior motive for this querie, it was just something that occured to me. Personally the unit I work for I would think gets approximately 25 - 30% of its jobs through sub-contracting to consultants.
This is not an invitation to slag off either consultancies or units it is a genuine question.
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I would guess a similar percentage for my unit, although of late it is increasing, certainly in the bigger jobs.
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I think there are a number of things to separate:
Projects sub contracted by consultants and Projects where a consultant is involved.
Equally projects where a consultant will be involved will tend to be bigger ones in financial terms or where there is an archaeological issue.
Peter Wardle
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In my county consultants only seem to be used where there is an eia, and in this case the work is generally done by an environmental consultancy, sometimes subcontracting the dba. Sometimes where there is a dba recommendation for pre-determination where this is actually followed through by the planner a consultant is used. Most of the DBas do go to units rather than consultancies.
Very frequently even when we have answered scoping request negatively an archaeology chapter is produced for an eia which tends to have remarkably little to say.
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Have worked in a county recently where a completely subservient curator did exactly what a consultant asked/dictated.Consultants and archaeology .....hmmm.My favourite!
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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Sound like you should be laying into the curator rather than the consultant.
1man1desk
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9th August 2006, 01:54 PM
Absolutely sir.My point entirely.Curators are the only peeps that taxpayers can hold responsible in the entire pantomime-tiz high time that incompetent curators were made to face the public.Unit directors may slip from the "legal" responsibility bit but- lets ask the IFA to do something positive about people they validate too.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
