19th January 2007, 03:44 PM
"English Heritage like paying grants to âfarmersâ (welfare of small, traditional culture) so that the farmers can carry on sub-soiling archaeology for the detectorists. "
As far as I am aware EH pay management grants to farmers to stop subsoiling and ploughing - but they don't have a lot of spare cash!
"(Plough damange [sic]; just too big to handle? Steve Trow, English Heritage)"
How much do you want to spend on it - so far the East Midland area alone have a half million per year bill for paying farmers to take archaeological sites out of ploughing - under Environmental Stewardship it comes in at £460/ha. The bill could be more than that for the London Olympics if we try and get every ploughed site under grass - and the cost will rise as grain prices rise as they inevitably will with the demand for biofuels!
As far as I am aware EH pay management grants to farmers to stop subsoiling and ploughing - but they don't have a lot of spare cash!
"(Plough damange [sic]; just too big to handle? Steve Trow, English Heritage)"
How much do you want to spend on it - so far the East Midland area alone have a half million per year bill for paying farmers to take archaeological sites out of ploughing - under Environmental Stewardship it comes in at £460/ha. The bill could be more than that for the London Olympics if we try and get every ploughed site under grass - and the cost will rise as grain prices rise as they inevitably will with the demand for biofuels!