11th November 2011, 02:32 PM
OK, so lets say all small jobs are done by the local societies for free. The developers will be delighted won't they?
Oh no - hold on - of the members of the local group, three can only do one day a week, anothers on a round the world cruise and Bill, who owns the wheelbarrows, is in hospital with a dodgy ticker.
Most of the small jobs my unit does are won on the basis of price or time - monitorings at 24hrs notice and under 1ha hectare evals with 1 or 2 weeks. How exactly is a local amateur group going to respond to the time pressures of planning led archaeology?
Having said that you can't use this as another arguement for RO status being required. If a developer can get an unpaid group to do the work, to a standard that suits the local curators, and meets their timeframe then why not? In theory theres nothing technically wrong with the idea, it just cannot ever work in practice.
and anyway, the way we're going, all us professionals will end up working effectively for nothing before long.
and CA's wikipedia entry strikes me as quite funny, bearing in mind the general consensus of this thread...
'Current Archaeology describes itself as the "United Kingdom's best selling archaeology magazine", a claim substantiated by British Archaeological Jobs and Resources online, which labels the title 'Britain's favourite archaeology magazine'.
Oh no - hold on - of the members of the local group, three can only do one day a week, anothers on a round the world cruise and Bill, who owns the wheelbarrows, is in hospital with a dodgy ticker.
Most of the small jobs my unit does are won on the basis of price or time - monitorings at 24hrs notice and under 1ha hectare evals with 1 or 2 weeks. How exactly is a local amateur group going to respond to the time pressures of planning led archaeology?
Having said that you can't use this as another arguement for RO status being required. If a developer can get an unpaid group to do the work, to a standard that suits the local curators, and meets their timeframe then why not? In theory theres nothing technically wrong with the idea, it just cannot ever work in practice.
and anyway, the way we're going, all us professionals will end up working effectively for nothing before long.
and CA's wikipedia entry strikes me as quite funny, bearing in mind the general consensus of this thread...
'Current Archaeology describes itself as the "United Kingdom's best selling archaeology magazine", a claim substantiated by British Archaeological Jobs and Resources online, which labels the title 'Britain's favourite archaeology magazine'.