10th November 2010, 02:30 PM
Not sure I understand the question either.
On commercial excavations research agendas are an integeral part of Project design (well should be), post-ex assessment and analysis.
The percentages of ditches dug are a reflection of this. Dunno how other people do it, but we adjust percentages dug on site, dependant on the rellevant research agendas dependant of what we find.
But yes Dinosaur it takes an experienced supervisor to 'interpret' the meaning of the percentages....as per our conversation of what is ritual? and hence what needs to be 100% dug.
But I have heard, on the scuttlebut, that some large construction companies with 'permitted development rights' seem to be hiring cheap archaeological consultants with very little experience or understanding of the archaeology in a region who have produced DBA's after just looking at say magic for the scheduled monuments and getting an out of date list of known sites from the county then stating that there's nowt in that area so you can dig it without any archaeological monitoring. And apparently getting away with it??
- but its just a rumour:face-stir:
On commercial excavations research agendas are an integeral part of Project design (well should be), post-ex assessment and analysis.
The percentages of ditches dug are a reflection of this. Dunno how other people do it, but we adjust percentages dug on site, dependant on the rellevant research agendas dependant of what we find.
But yes Dinosaur it takes an experienced supervisor to 'interpret' the meaning of the percentages....as per our conversation of what is ritual? and hence what needs to be 100% dug.
But I have heard, on the scuttlebut, that some large construction companies with 'permitted development rights' seem to be hiring cheap archaeological consultants with very little experience or understanding of the archaeology in a region who have produced DBA's after just looking at say magic for the scheduled monuments and getting an out of date list of known sites from the county then stating that there's nowt in that area so you can dig it without any archaeological monitoring. And apparently getting away with it??
- but its just a rumour:face-stir: