19th May 2010, 03:26 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:I'm reasonably certain I can remember cases in the past where Local Societies etc have, in fact, undertaken what would conventionally be regarded in this day and age as 'commercial' jobs - in fact any right-minded developer with a plot of land likely to contain archaeology and in no particular hurry to develop (all those land-bank sites that Tesco and co sit on, for starters) wouldn't be going far wrong in approaching any local societies to see if they can get all the archaeology out of the way in advance of any planning process for free/peanuts (or Unitof1's plan B, bulldoze it). Wouldn't that potentially have a significant effect upon the commercial archaeology sector? :face-stir:
"significant effect" - no.