28th August 2013, 05:54 PM
Seems to me that if planning officers aren't getting the fact that you can only say if there is or isn't archaeology in a particular spot by finding out if there is archaeology in that spot, then it's an issue of poor communication rather than methodology. And I genuinely can't see how you can risk stuff being destroyed just in an effort to chase some arbitrary success rate judged solely on finding things. Seems rather against the principles of archaeology.