2nd February 2012, 05:30 PM
ZSilvia went on to say :-
"People should be vetted to become professional archaeologists and we should follow Ireland, in both the US and UK, and outright ban metal detectoring. The condition should be that what lies beneath our feet is so precious that it either stays there, or is taken care of by people who know what they are doing "
Mmmm, shall we also seek to ban invasive agricultural techniques in case they damage those precious things and then what about development archaeological briefs which only allocate a maximum of 10 % excavation of some features ? Should we ban that as well and go for 100 % excavation from the grass roots down and then what about those areas in a development that are not the subject of archaeological evaluation ?
Lets get back to the real world and stop ranting on its getting boring.
"People should be vetted to become professional archaeologists and we should follow Ireland, in both the US and UK, and outright ban metal detectoring. The condition should be that what lies beneath our feet is so precious that it either stays there, or is taken care of by people who know what they are doing "
Mmmm, shall we also seek to ban invasive agricultural techniques in case they damage those precious things and then what about development archaeological briefs which only allocate a maximum of 10 % excavation of some features ? Should we ban that as well and go for 100 % excavation from the grass roots down and then what about those areas in a development that are not the subject of archaeological evaluation ?
Lets get back to the real world and stop ranting on its getting boring.