18th July 2012, 03:30 PM
So if as various Government agencies are saying only 19.5percent of the land in Britain is built on dropping to around 5 percent or less if you factor out gardens parks allotments etc and most recent archaeology has been in advance of development. Even if you factor out terrain etc the sample size we are dealing with for "pits" is probably a very tiny fraction of the whole that once existed. Surely this makes any attempt to interpret almost a non starter and what we are really looking at is the distribution of archaeological investigation and the methodologies of the archaeologists involved.
PS has anyone else noticed a worrying recent trend in the media to play up just how undeveloped this country is. Does anyone suspect a Govenment agenda to move development on to green field sites? Not a bad thing for archaeology as long as archaeology is factored in (one can dream
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PS has anyone else noticed a worrying recent trend in the media to play up just how undeveloped this country is. Does anyone suspect a Govenment agenda to move development on to green field sites? Not a bad thing for archaeology as long as archaeology is factored in (one can dream
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