25th February 2013, 09:15 AM
Quote:I'm not sure that Bob is correct that there is no value without publication, but it is an interesting idea. If there is no access to the information generated then what was the point of doing the worki think you answered your own question there..
no record, no publication of any sort - the site may as well have been never dug. I am thinking of the difficult re-working of a couple of sites in Scotland = the Udal ( http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/committees/su...20Uist.pdf) and Broxmouth. http://postexcavation.wordpress.com/pres...ic-sector/
Both dug and never really published, now it has taken a massive ammount of effort and money to piece together the boxes and fieldnotes, the plans and records and admit that some bags of stuff will never be allocated to a period or phase.. And to make it look better, they are seen as the ultimate record.
Some sites need Reports, some need articles as well, some need monographs. All need archived primary data in some sort of sensible semblance of order. and my thoughts are - as stuart says, a disc is always on the back of my rports, with all the data for people to pick over. in archive required formats.