29th January 2007, 01:57 PM
I'm partly playing devil's advocate Tom but there is some validity (I think) in seeing the current funding in a similar vein to curent farm funding via subsidies. Actually a further thought would be that general treausry funding could go to archaeologists to fund educational and outreach work to get the results of their projects to a wider public audience.
Second hand slates - Natural England now, generally, specify new British sourced slates for conservation projects to reduce the chance of buildings being demolished to supply the reclamation market (some of which may be supplied by illegally obtained materials - I know of one barn that we funded which lost two sets of new tiles before we gave up and put corrugated iron on it!
Second hand slates - Natural England now, generally, specify new British sourced slates for conservation projects to reduce the chance of buildings being demolished to supply the reclamation market (some of which may be supplied by illegally obtained materials - I know of one barn that we funded which lost two sets of new tiles before we gave up and put corrugated iron on it!