20th September 2005, 06:28 PM
Troll,
I sympathise entirely on Thornborough. On preservation in situ, though - my 'several' preserved sites of National importance were only ones from my own personal experience.
I'd say that, on schemes that I have personal knowledge of, probably all of the previously-known Nationally-important sites have been preserved in situ, together with around 80-90% of those (very few) discovered during development of the project. However, you have to recognise that most archaeological sites are not of National importance (or else abandon all grading of importance). Sites of lesser importance are usually only preserved in situ if the costs/risks of not doing so (to the developer) are greater than the cost of doing so.
The point of the specific examples I gave was to illustrate the willingness of some developers (both public bodies in these examples) to accept substantial cost or other difficulties on their project to permit preservation in situ. They are human beans, just like us, and not all bad you know!
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
I sympathise entirely on Thornborough. On preservation in situ, though - my 'several' preserved sites of National importance were only ones from my own personal experience.
I'd say that, on schemes that I have personal knowledge of, probably all of the previously-known Nationally-important sites have been preserved in situ, together with around 80-90% of those (very few) discovered during development of the project. However, you have to recognise that most archaeological sites are not of National importance (or else abandon all grading of importance). Sites of lesser importance are usually only preserved in situ if the costs/risks of not doing so (to the developer) are greater than the cost of doing so.
The point of the specific examples I gave was to illustrate the willingness of some developers (both public bodies in these examples) to accept substantial cost or other difficulties on their project to permit preservation in situ. They are human beans, just like us, and not all bad you know!
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished