26th August 2013, 05:38 PM
Tool Wrote:Are there many parts of Britain where you could guarantee there is no archaeology without some form of investigation? That would seem rather a dangerous assumption to me. But then I am new to this game.
There are certainly some sites in the City of London and surrounding areas which have been developed/redeveloped 3 times in the 'short period' I have been an archaeologist. Pretty certain that some of those sites have no archaeology surviving (unless you are counting evidence of multiple developments over a relatively short period of time). Remember one site where the motorbike dumped by an archaeologist in the backfilling of site c 1978 was 're-excavated' in the 1990s....
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