20th April 2012, 04:57 PM
Quote:In 1986-87 68% of the people working in “rescue archaeology” were funded by MSC, in 1987 MSC provided about 1/3 of the money going into archaeological workStop!! You're ruining the plot for the rest of us!
By 1990-91 48% of archaeological funding was from developers, compared to only 17% 4 years earlier
In 1986 Berkshire County Council transferred all responsibility for funding archaeological work to developers through their structural plan policy EN6 – this lead to ‘the first example of competitive tendering for an archaeological project’ occurring in Reading Business Park, with the work being carried out by the Oxford Archaeological Unit in 1987.
In the 1970’s work in Buckler’s Hard was opened to tender, but no tender was submitted.