12th May 2011, 03:20 PM
Archaeology is 100% destructive regardless of how much is left in the ground, for some day soon a big yellow machine will be along and rip it all out. Why? "well you've dug it havent you?" or "who gives a shit?". Once (not so many years ago) I heard the head of a major UK consultancy argue that we need not bother digging any more BA barrows as we know all there is to know about them, don't we?
I have excaveted 100% across Ireland and only once in the UK, and only then because we found the only one of 'the damned things' ever to be excavated in Cornwall!
I have excaveted 100% across Ireland and only once in the UK, and only then because we found the only one of 'the damned things' ever to be excavated in Cornwall!