19th February 2008, 07:36 PM
I have no idea where the notion has come form that there is very little development in Wales. There have been several large and high profile excavations undertaken by th eWelsh trusts in Wales including the Newport ship, Cardiff Castle and a huge development undertaken by GAT on HOlyhead - it is more often that the case that it is the couty council units in England that are smaller and do little more the=an watching briefs.
Wales is at the moment benefiting from huge cash injections as parts of it are european objective 1 funding areas, and when you couple this with the rise in the percievied importance of industrial archaeology then there is a fair old number of jobs about.
And while it is true that the Trusts generally concentrate on jobs within thier area they do work outside, and at least two of the units work in England on occassion.
So please do not fall into the trap of thinking that the welsh trusts work in some rural idal and place them in their appropriate context, the work carried out is no different than elsewhere in the UK and there is no real reason for a different system.
Wales is at the moment benefiting from huge cash injections as parts of it are european objective 1 funding areas, and when you couple this with the rise in the percievied importance of industrial archaeology then there is a fair old number of jobs about.
And while it is true that the Trusts generally concentrate on jobs within thier area they do work outside, and at least two of the units work in England on occassion.
So please do not fall into the trap of thinking that the welsh trusts work in some rural idal and place them in their appropriate context, the work carried out is no different than elsewhere in the UK and there is no real reason for a different system.