30th June 2009, 02:35 PM
Mr Unit,
I didn't 'claim' anything. You need to be more careful in your use of words - your tone, here and in many of your other posts, implies that you suspect dishonesty or bad motives in other participants.
What I did was to state a fact about one of the types of circumstance in which I might be commissioned by a client to organise archaeological investigations, to which I would apply the CoC.
The comment referred to projects in which we help a client find out whether a piece of land they may want to develop contains archaeological remains. That information may influence their decision on whether to buy the land, or for how much - but that is their decision; I do not help them to 'finalise project budgets before purchase'. After all, I am an archaeologist and an environmental consultant, not a property valuer.
In the same way, the client is likely to commission studies to ensure that the seller really owns the land, that no-one else has rights to it, whether or not it is occupied by protected species or designated as a nature conservation site, whether the land is contaminated, and all sorts of other factors that influence whether or not that particular piece of land is a good investment.
No investigation (archaeological or other) can take place on the land itself without the agreement of the existing owner, who wants to sell and knows he can't unless all of this information is made available.
The process is called 'due diligence', and is very widespread, especially for larger developments. tmsarch drew the parallel with the searches and surveys you would have done on a house before you buy it, and that is a very good analogy.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
I didn't 'claim' anything. You need to be more careful in your use of words - your tone, here and in many of your other posts, implies that you suspect dishonesty or bad motives in other participants.
What I did was to state a fact about one of the types of circumstance in which I might be commissioned by a client to organise archaeological investigations, to which I would apply the CoC.
The comment referred to projects in which we help a client find out whether a piece of land they may want to develop contains archaeological remains. That information may influence their decision on whether to buy the land, or for how much - but that is their decision; I do not help them to 'finalise project budgets before purchase'. After all, I am an archaeologist and an environmental consultant, not a property valuer.
In the same way, the client is likely to commission studies to ensure that the seller really owns the land, that no-one else has rights to it, whether or not it is occupied by protected species or designated as a nature conservation site, whether the land is contaminated, and all sorts of other factors that influence whether or not that particular piece of land is a good investment.
No investigation (archaeological or other) can take place on the land itself without the agreement of the existing owner, who wants to sell and knows he can't unless all of this information is made available.
The process is called 'due diligence', and is very widespread, especially for larger developments. tmsarch drew the parallel with the searches and surveys you would have done on a house before you buy it, and that is a very good analogy.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished