20th February 2006, 08:56 PM
Troll, your views are at best foolish. As a former field archaeologist now training in the building profession the idea of glass floors(!) is ridiculous. Firstly, glass floors are extremely expensive, are prone to damage (unless you want to pay thousands more for toughened versions) and highly impractical. On top of that - who wants to sit in a room that appears to be plonked on mud/ sand / clay etc; not aesthetically pleasing. If sombody is daft enough to want a glass floor so they can stare at a few post-holes for the next twenty years do you expect the developer to carry the cost, they won't. If a new-build does have a glass-floor then will the public have full access to the building?
"Why do we as a profession assume that we have the right to completely eradicate town/city archaeology?" you squeal, but why should archaeologists insist on the right to preserve archaeology that is only interesting to other archaeologists?
By the way, are your floors made of glass?