16th October 2010, 12:29 PM
When they built the Centre For Life in Newcastle on an old 18th/19th century infirmary cemetery (always thought that was a bit ironic!) the cemetery got dug by the old Newcastle City Unit only because the tender for archaeology was actually lower than those from various commercial cemetery clearing outfits....interesting dig and the remains were treated with considerably more respect than they would have been otherwise (the remainder of the site was cleared using, ahem, a big seive....) :face-approve: