Have you used the ICE Conditions of Contract?

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inVis, I did not mean to patronise you, unfortunately my posts get edited by our hosts, sweet poetry for you all, no doubt, and my last comment following you was wiped out so my following comment was aimed at them buggers, I cant remember what I had put?.

I commend you on your student endeavours. I too was a mature student but fortunately I had not spent my previous employment in the construction industry. Having mistakenly come into commercial archaeology I find that archaeology in Britain is dominated by the relationship to civil engineering and presumably its backers our good friends the bankers, so that we have archaeologists who work (or who have) in the planning departments of authorities, consultants who work for developers and it seems to me companies and company practise which bow to this relationship. I see the ice contract as an example of this dominance over the ifa. What I do is relatively straight forward, I dig holes for profit. If I was to do this in a private sense I would have to value the archaeology, own the land and undertake the excavation myself. I might expect to generate copyright, artefacts and in extremely rare cases monumental displays. I take these principles when I negotiate in the work place and when I consider contracts and others who call themsleves archaeologists.