10th November 2011, 11:30 AM
The key role played by current archaeology is to inform people about the archaeology being undertaken in britain today. And illinformed editorials such as this do not foster a spirit of cooperation with commercial archaeologists we want people to know about our work and what we do but do not support the portratal of us as money grabbing authority figures! I love my job and how many of the most enthusiastic ametuers would spend ten years for poor pay poor conditions and no stability. My job at the moment is machine watchin im the rain on a building site. Theres no archaeology so far just three mind numbing days of nothing with potentially two more weeks to go. But there is some great prehistoric archaeology found nearby so is vital im here. How many ameturs want this job and how many would be safe to do so