26th October 2012, 09:32 AM
Quote:I've personally turned a WB into a 6-figure project before now, and plenty into 4 and 5 figure jobs, so why settle for a few hundred quid and walk away having ignored all the archaeology?
Thing is dino the curators would use this to say that wb works. I would like to know what kind of client would accept a contingency of a 6, 5 or 4 figure liability from a post determination few hundred quid watching brief condition or who would advise any developer to take such a risk. Had these been sites which had had evaluation or was the client some public service?
Quote:You might use a watching brief on a site that is protected (either through listing-scheduling or being managed by a heritage agency) when necessary remedial work has to be done ie replacing Victorian drains, puting in new fence
alignments etc. The damage is minimal but the hole gives you a key hole view into the underlying stratigraphy.
does it really wax. All that setting up a contract, lieasing with the contractors, standing around to get some utterly pointless going through the motion of recording a glimps of underlying stratigrafy which isnt going anywhere except to burden some archive. Whats the point of this information from the protected site. Lets say its a medieval listed building are you using this fact hopeing to find romans or how deep the foundations are?
Reason: your past is my past