19th August 2011, 07:23 PM
tom wilson Wrote:Why on earth would a client (i.e. developer) want to give a backhander to his consultant? That makes absolutley no sense.
This DOES HAPPEN........ there are many instances of Consultancies taking backsheesh to pretend there are no archaeological implications and forcing poor standards and bare minima............ County Archaeologists cannot and do not monitor ALL projects............it's a cruel world out there !!! .well known practices but never brought to light and have increased over the last few years with the state of the economy........come on we all know IT DOES HAPPEN !!!!!