27th November 2010, 05:32 PM
Vulpes has a point about the 'ticking-off-the-boxes' thing, any enforced form of peer review would need to come from the curatorial end of things and be written into a scheme from the outset or no one is ever going to bother with it or fund it.
The problem with getting 'recognised experts' out to look at things on site is that (a) in my experience they quite often turn out to have even less knowledge than I do and are blagging it on the basis of having done some research excavation in the 1960s, (b) it's usually impossible to get anyone to come from the other end of the country for free, and © the hole's usually been backfilled long before they have a window in their schedule/retirement.....
The problem with getting 'recognised experts' out to look at things on site is that (a) in my experience they quite often turn out to have even less knowledge than I do and are blagging it on the basis of having done some research excavation in the 1960s, (b) it's usually impossible to get anyone to come from the other end of the country for free, and © the hole's usually been backfilled long before they have a window in their schedule/retirement.....