31st August 2012, 10:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 31st August 2012, 10:39 AM by Potboiler.)
Wax Wrote:<snip>...... If I had a nice crisp five pound note for every time I have been aske are you a student or volunteer I could have retired by now.
That part of your post made me laugh Wax.
The amount of times I have been asked..."do you get paid for doing this...?"
The job is just not taken seriously by anyone who doesn't understand it
(Perhaps, one day, once we have destroyed most of the UK's ancient past, someone might comment..."Ohh, perhaps our history was important after all.)
I doubt it though.
Still, there will be a new breed of 'land-fill' archaeologists working by then. I expect they will be very busy.