5th December 2005, 05:04 PM
Quote:quote: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.(posted by archae_logical)
Well, only if they force themselves into that position. The developer usually has to allow sufficient time for the scope of work agreed with the curator. Where it breaks down is if the archaeologists themselves have under-estimated the time required (they often do), and the developer has based a complex and very expensive works programme on the assumption that the archaeologists will be off site when they said they would.
Bear in mind that the cost of delay to a major construction programme is completely out of proportion to the cost of the actual archaeological works. A week's delay can cost tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of pounds.
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