8th November 2006, 05:50 PM
Gary
Decent question that appears to have attracted a bit of misunderstanding. 1man and others have given a fair response that I would not try to expand as there is little more to say.
Whilst any loss of archive is regretable, I doubt that many out there could hold their hand up and claim that it has never happened, or could never happen, to them. Any system of storage and retrieval is subject to human error, especially if material has to be moved.
When contractors apply to the IFA to become Registered Archaeological Organisations (RAOs), archive storage and documentation procedures are amongst the issues that are checked out.
CKC Archaeology (Chris Currie's set-up) was an RAO, in fact it was RAO No. 1 and Chris gleefully exploited this by claiming to be the No.1 RAO in the UK.
He was a very good field archaeologist who made great advances in the niche subject of 'garden archaeology' but was also an expert on many other topics - he is still greatly missed in those parts of the country where he worked.
Beamo
Decent question that appears to have attracted a bit of misunderstanding. 1man and others have given a fair response that I would not try to expand as there is little more to say.
Whilst any loss of archive is regretable, I doubt that many out there could hold their hand up and claim that it has never happened, or could never happen, to them. Any system of storage and retrieval is subject to human error, especially if material has to be moved.
When contractors apply to the IFA to become Registered Archaeological Organisations (RAOs), archive storage and documentation procedures are amongst the issues that are checked out.
CKC Archaeology (Chris Currie's set-up) was an RAO, in fact it was RAO No. 1 and Chris gleefully exploited this by claiming to be the No.1 RAO in the UK.
He was a very good field archaeologist who made great advances in the niche subject of 'garden archaeology' but was also an expert on many other topics - he is still greatly missed in those parts of the country where he worked.
Beamo