26th May 2006, 04:04 PM
blx... just wrote a massive reply and lost it
crux of it......
Irony can be lost on forums...
I intend to fund it as mcuh as I expect Paul to organise it.
read my posts carefully.. I do not suggest that detecting would be any real use, neither do I suggest that field walking is the best replacement why I opposed the quarry was
a) This was to important a monument to rush through ... I am sure people would be quite upset if a quarry would surround Avebury or Stonhenge.?? If we want to understand the landscape, lets take our time, lets protect it... (ie ploughing must stop)
I supported the archaeologists working on the site, even when not supporting the application (which failed... becasue it did not prove that quarrying was over-riding the importance of the site) You talk about we had a chance to excavate the entire site... which suggests 100%... but as we know thats not quite the case... the percentage of excaavtion of featrue is high, but not total... so to correct your statement, we would would know quite a bit about much of the site.
They are classed as important ... and so I will say again, they need protected.. and the field walking would not REPLACE further work but ENHANCE and ADD to further work... these 2 previous fieldwalks, have you looked at correspondance of locations ? would it be good to have another field walk? ... would it be good to preserve the entire site so that generations of archaeologists can tease information from the site, rather than have an impending deadline before it is TOTALy DESTROYED... the creeping destruction is the next problem, and should be dealt with immediately...
phew.... wait till we all get together and talk face to face...
and no Real Job... I don't remember offering to pay for an area excavation.... but I do remember placing a toungue into my cheek
Another day another WSI?
crux of it......
Irony can be lost on forums...
I intend to fund it as mcuh as I expect Paul to organise it.
Quote:quote:Unfortunately Host you have ended up in the position of having opposed the chance to excavate properly (by opposing the quarry) and now having to suggest fieldwalking (think I am right in saying that the area has been done twice already) and metaldetecting (of dubious value for lithic scatters and pottery!).
read my posts carefully.. I do not suggest that detecting would be any real use, neither do I suggest that field walking is the best replacement why I opposed the quarry was
a) This was to important a monument to rush through ... I am sure people would be quite upset if a quarry would surround Avebury or Stonhenge.?? If we want to understand the landscape, lets take our time, lets protect it... (ie ploughing must stop)
I supported the archaeologists working on the site, even when not supporting the application (which failed... becasue it did not prove that quarrying was over-riding the importance of the site) You talk about we had a chance to excavate the entire site... which suggests 100%... but as we know thats not quite the case... the percentage of excaavtion of featrue is high, but not total... so to correct your statement, we would would know quite a bit about much of the site.
Quote:quote:then they are certainly too important to be recorded by the wholly inadequate means of non-intrusive methods alone (I assume you are not offering to fund full open area excavation?!).
They are classed as important ... and so I will say again, they need protected.. and the field walking would not REPLACE further work but ENHANCE and ADD to further work... these 2 previous fieldwalks, have you looked at correspondance of locations ? would it be good to have another field walk? ... would it be good to preserve the entire site so that generations of archaeologists can tease information from the site, rather than have an impending deadline before it is TOTALy DESTROYED... the creeping destruction is the next problem, and should be dealt with immediately...
phew.... wait till we all get together and talk face to face...
and no Real Job... I don't remember offering to pay for an area excavation.... but I do remember placing a toungue into my cheek
Another day another WSI?