Free archaeology

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The best you can do is advise developers the potential costs e.g

Thing is that every bugger treats evaluation as a full archive and recording almost to publication status exercise. What I want is that it isn't. That it is considered that an archaeologist takes a machine and does a few trenches and then reports on the planning application prior to determination whether there is anything worth archiving. In other words a very short memo type document masquerading as a grand archaeological report and this to be the sole site archive possibly containing one or two pictures and possibly a low resolution plan of the archaeologists choice. All finds left property of landowner/ archaeologist.

I don't think that in any way an evaluation report should be something that can be used by a developer to tender for excavation work.