5th December 2005, 04:34 PM
One question you have to ask which I believe is pertinent. What value do you place on archaeology?
From what I percieve as a bystander, archaeologists are forced into the position of getting what they can in the time the developer allows. All I seem to hear is ?we had the machinery breathing down our necks as we rushed to finish this? and similar. Surely our past is worth more than this. [:0]
As I keep saying the past belongs to us all not only archaeologists or developers etc. I know businesses have timescales but this shouldn?t mean the archaeology is pressured. If the business knows, or even suspects, it wants to work on a site which contains archaeology it should make contingency plans as any good business does for these occasions. Aren?t developers supposed to insure themselves against unsuspected archaeology being found?
As for developers feeling shafted as 1 man says, I was appalled to hear how little it costs some developers (I?m sure you all know to whom I refer). ?400,000 sounds a lot of money to lay people but spread it over 10 years and who is being shafted?
We hear fine words about heritage from various bodies but where are the actions to suit? :face-confused:
As for pay and conditions to a certain extent I?d blame everyone involved, both past and present, for the situation in which you find yourselves. There are ways to change it but you all need to work together for it to happen.
E
Getting off her high horse and going back to studying [:p]
From what I percieve as a bystander, archaeologists are forced into the position of getting what they can in the time the developer allows. All I seem to hear is ?we had the machinery breathing down our necks as we rushed to finish this? and similar. Surely our past is worth more than this. [:0]
As I keep saying the past belongs to us all not only archaeologists or developers etc. I know businesses have timescales but this shouldn?t mean the archaeology is pressured. If the business knows, or even suspects, it wants to work on a site which contains archaeology it should make contingency plans as any good business does for these occasions. Aren?t developers supposed to insure themselves against unsuspected archaeology being found?
As for developers feeling shafted as 1 man says, I was appalled to hear how little it costs some developers (I?m sure you all know to whom I refer). ?400,000 sounds a lot of money to lay people but spread it over 10 years and who is being shafted?
We hear fine words about heritage from various bodies but where are the actions to suit? :face-confused:
As for pay and conditions to a certain extent I?d blame everyone involved, both past and present, for the situation in which you find yourselves. There are ways to change it but you all need to work together for it to happen.
E
Getting off her high horse and going back to studying [:p]