1st March 2007, 10:44 AM
I couldn't agree more Mr. Hosty.
I thought there was a great opportunity here to explain the importance of archaeological work and put into a meaningful context in relation to regeneration and reuse of historic structures. How else would the architect have been able to properly design and reconstruct some of those fancy features, if archaeologists and buildings historians and English Heritage hadn't been working for years to record and understand the historic examples. Instead all we got was "...that £20,000 archaeological budget would have come in very handy" as if this was money wasted. Appalling
I thought there was a great opportunity here to explain the importance of archaeological work and put into a meaningful context in relation to regeneration and reuse of historic structures. How else would the architect have been able to properly design and reconstruct some of those fancy features, if archaeologists and buildings historians and English Heritage hadn't been working for years to record and understand the historic examples. Instead all we got was "...that £20,000 archaeological budget would have come in very handy" as if this was money wasted. Appalling