30th August 2008, 11:29 AM
Er...no brainer regarding preservation in situ. Can you imagine. Build over top of it with some sort of reinforcement. A few yeasr later, the road collapses or becomes pot-holed due to increased traffic and heavier vehicles. Roads Authority do what they usually do, i.e. fill in holes and re-surface. Souterain becomes unwittingly filled with hardcore and concrete.
Sorry. Just a hunger fuelled example of what might happen with preservation in situ and saving road builders a bit of cash.
I think precedent is a dangerous tools and often easy examples of caveats to archaeological mitigation (though the opposite is also true). Each case should be treated on its own merit, as is voiced on this site at least once a week.
Back to breakfast.
Sorry. Just a hunger fuelled example of what might happen with preservation in situ and saving road builders a bit of cash.
I think precedent is a dangerous tools and often easy examples of caveats to archaeological mitigation (though the opposite is also true). Each case should be treated on its own merit, as is voiced on this site at least once a week.
Back to breakfast.