18th November 2011, 06:57 AM
RedEarth Wrote:I must have missed that but it is a good point. Always seemed pretty underhand using private addresses and PO boxes to appear local but it does seem pretty widespread. Wonder how many ROs indulge in such behaviour?
I think this is surely making a mountain out of a molehill....the use of the term 'underhand' suggests that such practice is illegal (it isn't) or makes bad business sense (it doesn't). I am totally in favour of locally based archaeological services, but all of us who have been around for 20 years or more have been through that struggle. We lost decisively to the combination of market forces and a lack of support from national bodies and local curators. We have to accept I think that archeeology in the UK is pretty much a nationally based business. Good luck to those organisations that maintain a local or regional identity, but for lots of archaeologists who can't find work locally the nationally based organisations are a godsend.
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