28th April 2011, 09:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 28th April 2011, 09:10 PM by Marcus Brody.)
But surely if it's a cost that every unit has to bear, it doesn't disadvantage any one individual company, so no-one is commercially penalised. I know that in Scotland all fieldwork is by custom and practice reported in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, published annually by Archaeology Scotland, formerly the CSA. This provides a useful round-up of where fieldwork has taken place over the preceding year, and what was found, and commercial companies contribute to it despite the fact that they have to pay for it, with the costs passed on to the developer. As most people accept the value of DES, this is accepted as a normal expense, and to my knowledge only one company has ever queried it.
However, I appreciate that this is wildly off-topic, so it probably doesn't need much further discussion
However, I appreciate that this is wildly off-topic, so it probably doesn't need much further discussion
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum