10th April 2006, 02:11 PM
I am not really blaming English Heritage. It is the way such jobs procede that irritates. The typical 'you are in the way' attitude often extends to working within large archaeological sites, which is pretty annoying when they are Scheduled. As for doing evaluations proceeding possible large scale development, it is the principle that really bothers me. If you are actually going to try to develop a Scheduled Ancient Monument (I don't really mean sites under state guardianship) then why evaluate at all? An area excavation should surely be the minimum.