How should British Archaeology be run

[P Prentice]

BSc, MSc, county units, university units, pipeline units, self employed in 2001 broke since about 2009

I have only trained up two people and it was in how to become self employed and go about getting their first jobs by writing off to planning concents and then how to get the curators to alow them to do the jobs as obviously their degrees and often considereable field experience was never quite good enough to do even a simple watching brief without a lot of wailing to the mostly BA curators.

I have trained others but it seems to me that if you are not eligible to undertake your own contract I dont see how you could be called an archaeologist.

Thanks for the thumbs up tmsarch I cant help but feel that a lot of this field experience is all about finding out what the status quo is and I dont think that its that complicated -two or three features a day clean your loose up take out a few numbers do that three days in a row and watch out that the supervisors/old lags dont put you down as a trouble maker.

you seem to be talking about diggers - not archaeologists