17th July 2006, 05:57 PM
I started out volunteering for local units, and consider that it was incredibly valuable, and having taken on volunteers have seen how useful it is from the other side. Where projects allow (ie where it does not put other units at a commercial disadvantage), the use of volunteers helps those at a certain point in their educations/careers to get a flavour of the work. Where the problems start is the excessive use of volunteers in a commercial context which means qualified individual archaeologists loose out.
Of the Clan Sutton
Of the Clan Sutton