19th March 2008, 04:52 PM
I think that its timely that theres the barton-on-humber debacle rumbling along side stow. It started out as yet another ever so important church losing its congregation, needing repair and now theres 2800+ bodies having to be stuffed in a box with an Anglo-Saxon deceitful pretence ceremony which presumably will come to represent another uformisum for why did we dig all of these up with how much money. I wonder when the next round of fund raising will start for the church roof(is it still a church?).
What I was thinking is that the only concern an archaeologist should have with these sites is imaging that one day stow will have to be dug and preserved by record and we may as well point out to everybody that thats what archaeologists do and start setting up the site rather than being drawn into the doesnt it look pretty conservation mob. I suggest that they collect their monies to construct a giant geodesic dome with museum standard tinted glass and air conditioning to await or delay our arrival. They could also start researching the reburial chants although until we can give them a time frame, some spot dates, it might all be a bit previous
What I was thinking is that the only concern an archaeologist should have with these sites is imaging that one day stow will have to be dug and preserved by record and we may as well point out to everybody that thats what archaeologists do and start setting up the site rather than being drawn into the doesnt it look pretty conservation mob. I suggest that they collect their monies to construct a giant geodesic dome with museum standard tinted glass and air conditioning to await or delay our arrival. They could also start researching the reburial chants although until we can give them a time frame, some spot dates, it might all be a bit previous