22nd July 2011, 04:45 PM
Dinosaur Wrote: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
another big pile of dinosaur shite
before ppg 16 the amount of work undertaken was trivial compared to the last 20 years and most of it has never been published. most of the fieldwork was done by a very few poorly paid archaeologists or well-paid academics assisted either by volunteers, students, school children or sometimes prisoners on day release.
they were not halcyon days either for diggers or for the archaeology
we shouldn't mistake this smug self agrandisment for anything else from vested interests intent on using this forum to belittle the aspirations of any archaeologists
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers