6th May 2013, 12:36 PM
If there was the money (e.g. from a 0.25% or less levy on commercial projects), it could be continuously updated and reassessed on an online version - actually since it would significantly reduce the costs of producing DBAs it would easily pay for itself, but I've noticed British archaeology doesn't go for joined-up thinking so it'll never happen... :face-crying:
On a slightly different tack, there must be plenty of older gits like myself kicking around with vast knowledge of the archaeology of limited areas who are going to go our graves with it still in our heads cos no one's ever going to finance it actually getting written down - I've been upsetting the hell out of one of the independent consultants we work with by pointing out all the archaeology that got missed out in the ES for a major infrastructure project, he should have come and asked... }
On a slightly different tack, there must be plenty of older gits like myself kicking around with vast knowledge of the archaeology of limited areas who are going to go our graves with it still in our heads cos no one's ever going to finance it actually getting written down - I've been upsetting the hell out of one of the independent consultants we work with by pointing out all the archaeology that got missed out in the ES for a major infrastructure project, he should have come and asked... }