3rd September 2006, 01:44 PM
I suspect that you are probably right troll, thoiugh do not have any direct experience of said myself. Do I take it you may be thinking about an example in the N of the largest English county? My experience has been that county archaeologists can be quite combatative, and are more inclined to be so, when they are dealing with (some)consultancies. One hears it at conferences and in the pub etc that the stock of many consultancies is actually quite low among the curatorial and contractual archaeological community. As to why that could be so, would be in the realms of libellous speculation I suspect.