12th October 2011, 07:12 PM
I understand, but I believe this is the only way out of the Low standards of practice / Lack of enforceable standards / Poor pay and conditions loop that has been running since 1990 or whenever. At present there is no remedy which can prevent a consistently extremely bad practitioner from damaging the archaeological resource, and if we subscribe to the rhetoric that the resource is finite, irreplaceable and important, then I think we have to accept a degree of control on our actions.