23rd February 2007, 07:30 PM
Ethos-archaeology would rather have an evaluation (by trench) report than a DBA.
Quite often when I read so called dbas in the HER- normally for big schemes with lots of vested interest they seem to me to be propaganda -often embedded in EIAs- showing the potted archive travels of some out of town assistant consultant (unnamed) working in an âenvironmental teamâ for an engineering consultant appointed possibly by the civil engineering contractor who was appointed probably by a preferred contractor scam by some other developer or governing authority who need the consent before they can lie about the cost benefit analysis in order to get money out of some elusive regeneration fund.-not much use for a digger.
I know of a recent example of dba where my ordnance survey map had Anglo-Saxon Cemetery written on it that the propaganda magnificently failed to notice. They also failed to notice some bloody big landscape features that you would not believe (I wont say what as I suspect that detail might give the site away to the you know whos) That particular scheme went through four different units, six if you include the geophiz scam and want to call the consultants archaeologists (seven- I forgot the curators). They had different units doing the fieldwalking (upset the locals) evaluations (in the wrong place) and the excavations (oh and the main designated area for excavation âbulldozed). And as for the disparate bits of paper more paper maze than trail. I would challenge anybody to find them let alone put them together. Its hard to imagine a red carpet for diggers in all that.
surely any curator should look at all commercial archaeologists as defiantly working for the financial interests of their clients and react accordingly. It makes no sense to me to pretend that I am some independent curator. Without an evaluation trench I dont think I am concealing anything. âI could go round saying that every site contains the treasure of the ancients or not but I think I should be treated as a plank
was the church made to have consultant archaeologist because if left to their own devises they would more than averagely trash archaeology (yes). Do you think we will get eighty trenches a year out of the eighty consultant âarchaeologistsâ. (No)
Quite often when I read so called dbas in the HER- normally for big schemes with lots of vested interest they seem to me to be propaganda -often embedded in EIAs- showing the potted archive travels of some out of town assistant consultant (unnamed) working in an âenvironmental teamâ for an engineering consultant appointed possibly by the civil engineering contractor who was appointed probably by a preferred contractor scam by some other developer or governing authority who need the consent before they can lie about the cost benefit analysis in order to get money out of some elusive regeneration fund.-not much use for a digger.
I know of a recent example of dba where my ordnance survey map had Anglo-Saxon Cemetery written on it that the propaganda magnificently failed to notice. They also failed to notice some bloody big landscape features that you would not believe (I wont say what as I suspect that detail might give the site away to the you know whos) That particular scheme went through four different units, six if you include the geophiz scam and want to call the consultants archaeologists (seven- I forgot the curators). They had different units doing the fieldwalking (upset the locals) evaluations (in the wrong place) and the excavations (oh and the main designated area for excavation âbulldozed). And as for the disparate bits of paper more paper maze than trail. I would challenge anybody to find them let alone put them together. Its hard to imagine a red carpet for diggers in all that.
surely any curator should look at all commercial archaeologists as defiantly working for the financial interests of their clients and react accordingly. It makes no sense to me to pretend that I am some independent curator. Without an evaluation trench I dont think I am concealing anything. âI could go round saying that every site contains the treasure of the ancients or not but I think I should be treated as a plank
was the church made to have consultant archaeologist because if left to their own devises they would more than averagely trash archaeology (yes). Do you think we will get eighty trenches a year out of the eighty consultant âarchaeologistsâ. (No)