27th May 2010, 09:02 PM
Quote:they get to play archaeology
Who gets to play archaeology?
Quote:IFA recon that ?6500 does not get you an average evaluation
What a bizzare statement... no really
Quote:but somehow you can get to name drop every archaeological technique in the book: desktop geophys, evaluation, fieldwalking excavation and post ex and educate everybody in the community all about their historyIts called offering time in kind. I had a BBC historian helping on the research (handy for 15th and 16th century records...) an eminant ceramic specialist, a local group who could carry out geophysics,, etc etc... I had friends who were willing to give time, in order to have... wait for it... an enjoyable time with people who wanted you there, who were always raring to go and welcomed you... I enjoy and enyed it... never said I make a living out of it... its that I do it because I enjoy it... puts the spring back in my step. The next round will be involving more specialists - paid at full rate, as the project now has legs... evaluation is over... 6300 well spent as an eval. 2 years of work and now we are ready... full funded, complete post ex plan... research agendas ready... specialists placed and primed. we don't have long til the site is ploughed out. and without the previous work it would not have been found or recorded... it would have gone... vanished... unknown... waiting for a development to land on it... (unlikely)
You comments about "archaeology is child’s play" and "give up now you lot are a joke" "without very dodgy monies" absolutely idiotic... you make these up in your head... why will the volunteer be able to record a context? plan? photograph? ... ah... its the archaeologists there to help when needed, take over, instruct, guide.To say when to stop and what to put where.. (oh and listen from time to time to a surveyor, a retired geologist, and photographer) SO they could not (nor should not) try and do a time team dig without expert guidance.
Quote:"I can see how you make professional archaeologists look like overpaid jokes."
Now that is personal...
and you had better just stop there. Do you understand that Unit :face-confused: