19th August 2011, 04:39 PM
RedEarth Wrote:All of these equal No. 1:
What about 'having some sense that what you do is worthwhile' (to someone other than the people on site doing it)?
That one is difficult to gain - unless you show people round the site on an open day - as most sites don't reach the public domain till years later.
However, most/some sites appear as a note in a local authority archaeology magazine, and some make it to local archaeology days. But neither directly feed back to the diggers.
You could read regional resource assessments if a site is old enough to be included......these state how important sites are. But other than that its just a case of waiting years until sites are published, later still for the site to be mentioned in contrast to others and even later still for it to appear in a regional or national period synthesis.
But am guessing thats not what you mean?