9th July 2013, 11:38 AM
With seven folk, that could be £135,700 each, and over four years it comes to a paltry £34k pa. Seeing as most of them have "day jobs", that'd be a nice little earner! Of course, one hopes the actual project design has lots of other justifiable costs than just staff salaries, so our indignation at the money may well be misplaced. However, it still begs the question of how many new pearls of wisdom we will receive about hillforts for an investment of a million squids...
And (like Dino) I am concerned that this learned project is starting with a facile "informer's" questionnaire, when surely the folks involved should have harvested this basic info from the reams of already-published material on what is a definitely finite set of monuments? Seems odd to start such an expensive high-profile project by saying "Can you tell us if there are any hillforts lurking in your neighbourhood?"...
And (like Dino) I am concerned that this learned project is starting with a facile "informer's" questionnaire, when surely the folks involved should have harvested this basic info from the reams of already-published material on what is a definitely finite set of monuments? Seems odd to start such an expensive high-profile project by saying "Can you tell us if there are any hillforts lurking in your neighbourhood?"...