Research be seen as integral to development excavation.

[gwyl]

In your example I'd have to ask why, if that was the case, you're sending grey lit to the new house owners and were not required to produce a specific popular report?

one thing i never understood when the HIPs were operating why archaeological work was not included in the paperwork.

however on another topic, temporal contamination is the only way of getting across to some clients why it is in the first place that they need to have this work done; likening archaeology to bats, newts, asbestos, and ground pollutants and they are like puppies having their tummies rubbed - but talk heritage, knowledge and understanding of the past and its effects on the present and you're looking to start a fight; what i do find somewhat amusing, in my own experience, is that the clients who are most guilty of needing that sort treatment invariably live in listed buildings, clearly are not short of a couple of quid, and will always cause the most grief re: time or numbers on site, or payment, or origin of site-archaeologist and the sort of things that really do not enamour one to one's client

by the by, i don't think i have had the pleasure of a box-ticking council official as a monitoring curator; when i have had run-ins i have generally found them to be reasonable human beings in person, even if the preceding phone-call had been a bit less than encouraging