Standard and guidance for archaeological advice by historic environment services

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Does anybody know when this propergander was put up by the civil servants or who wrote it

http://www.archaeologists.net/advocacy/p...ngservices

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archforum/Why_..._Short.pdf

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We also get involved at a local level, and would encourage you as Council Tax
payers to make your own representations to ensure these services are protected.

We have also found the following paragraphs have proved useful in our own
advocacy to prevent severe cuts to local services.

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Thirdly, the role of planning archaeologists in applying such conditions is
critical to levering in private sector investment in archaeology. I am sure your
officers will have the figures for your area, but nationally the
picture is one of each post bringing in c ?1m annually of such inward investment
? an annual return of 30 to 40 times the cost of employment.

they recon that there are 320 of these "advisors" out there paying their subs to the ifa, which must be almost 2 thirds of the membership of all field archaeologists in the ifa but then I am really bad at mathermatics.but what is amazing is that these advisors have managed to generate almost 1m of wonderus inwardy investment EACH and that presumably is irrispective of the econmic climate which is just fantastic but wonders on wonders they have managed to do it without a STANDARD, just think how much the inwardy investment will be when they are working under eh's (for we must give credit where it is due-they paid for it (is that not also inwardly investment)) standard,

Lets see its at ?320 millions now, shirly it will double and that will make it 640 millions of pounds possibly just in the first year. After 2 years that is ?1280 miilions and in just ten years that is ?6400 millions.Now if we recon that theres only about 3500 real field archaeologists that is ?1828571.428571429 each. which is actually friegtenly small beer. But before you all get to excited I do think that it would be sensible to check these figures which are

critical to levering in private sector investment in archaeology

with the so called planning officers presumably soon to be advisors who

will have the figures for your area

levering now theres something that makes the little old ladies wet at the knees.