20th July 2011, 06:14 PM
RedEarth Wrote:I wasn't around in the pre-PPG days but I assumed that 'community' work carried out then (and that is using the word in its modern usage rather than what it was presumably called at the time) was carried out precisely because PPG didn't exist. I optimistically assumed that this situation being so unsatisfactory led to enough lobbying that PPG was brought in and, in effect, the war (against 'the man', whatever that even means, or whoever) was won. And then archaeologists got involved professionally and buggered things up in a manner that only they could.
Before PPG came MSC, before MSC came DoE/SDD, before DoE....etc etc....we had 20 plus years where central government paid for most archaeology in Britain, one way or another, and of course the Ministry of Works employed archaeologists back unto the dawn of time...ah, happy days....has only really gone tits-up since developers have recently had to stick their hands in their pockets to keep us employed
