1st February 2007, 04:45 PM
No burials were disturbed but the only grounds for this was luck- there was no way that anybody could have said there were no bodies -there was no recent disturbance. What I am trying to get at is that there is this document that says âarchaeologically evaluatedâ that has been put together by a bunch of people (It apparently had a launch) and it makes absolutely no difference to what we do and have done in the past on numerous jobs in churches.. as in so what was the point of the document
The reason that I talked to all these people was because of the blinking document throwing the evaluation for minor development around when the job came to me as an archaeological work in accordance with a written scheme of investigation condition and me not wanting to end up with several hundred bones and everybody going shouldnât you have done an âevaluationâ in little winy voices or didnt you know about this âdocumentâ.
On the having a go at consultants I call it a hobby particularly when their only job is to reduce the amount of digging to be done and yet make out that they achieve some remarkable âarchaeologicalâ result- The use of the âarchaeologically evaluatedâ has consultant speak all over it
I did hit a peat deposit 2 metres down which I would have called a result if I could have âevaluatedâ it- instead it got âwatchedâ after I pointed out that for me to go beyond 1.2 metres I would prefer a step out and increase the chances of.....
The doc is not very decisive about bodies going off into baulk either
Whatâs the point of it- EH speaking on behalf of archaeologists there should be a law against it
-basically stick with the faculty or burial licence if you go near bodies
I am not sure about dumping in churches either
The reason that I talked to all these people was because of the blinking document throwing the evaluation for minor development around when the job came to me as an archaeological work in accordance with a written scheme of investigation condition and me not wanting to end up with several hundred bones and everybody going shouldnât you have done an âevaluationâ in little winy voices or didnt you know about this âdocumentâ.
On the having a go at consultants I call it a hobby particularly when their only job is to reduce the amount of digging to be done and yet make out that they achieve some remarkable âarchaeologicalâ result- The use of the âarchaeologically evaluatedâ has consultant speak all over it
I did hit a peat deposit 2 metres down which I would have called a result if I could have âevaluatedâ it- instead it got âwatchedâ after I pointed out that for me to go beyond 1.2 metres I would prefer a step out and increase the chances of.....
The doc is not very decisive about bodies going off into baulk either
Whatâs the point of it- EH speaking on behalf of archaeologists there should be a law against it
-basically stick with the faculty or burial licence if you go near bodies
I am not sure about dumping in churches either