24th August 2013, 12:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th August 2013, 12:20 PM by Unitof1.)
are we really hampered by no HER access. The so called HER is just a state organisation of information most of which is held in other sources as well. That a museum holds information or records or archives is a matter of their collections policy, its a collection like any other collection in their keep. Charging to look at a particular set of information on computer or on paper is no different than charging to look at objects. The council planning officers like to go around saying that they are curators was just nicking terms of museums. The basis of a lot of HERs was the basis of the museums records and other curators like ordnance survey archaeologists.
Yes put objections to planning applications to encourage the developers to hire archaeologists but let which ever archaeologist do what ever they want and then let other archaeologists complain if they don't like what the archaeologists did. We don't need HERs, only so called county archaeologists need them to justify their NOT putting conditions on planning applications. I want the developer to pay me NOT to put promises on their applications or to get rid of the archaeology before they develop.
I promise to publish if I find anything that the museum might want and I might put it in a journal if they pay me.
Yes put objections to planning applications to encourage the developers to hire archaeologists but let which ever archaeologist do what ever they want and then let other archaeologists complain if they don't like what the archaeologists did. We don't need HERs, only so called county archaeologists need them to justify their NOT putting conditions on planning applications. I want the developer to pay me NOT to put promises on their applications or to get rid of the archaeology before they develop.
I promise to publish if I find anything that the museum might want and I might put it in a journal if they pay me.
Reason: your past is my past