18th October 2013, 05:59 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:You know perfectly well that plenty of projects go t**s-up on the costings due to exceptional finds not considered by the research design [and often one is handicapped by a research design done by a 3rd party] - as an e.g one little unexpected extra (amongst others) on one of my jobs was 120 Late Roman and Anglo-Saxon graves with around 2000 grave goods, the original research design got binned at that point, as it had completely missed reality...and I don't recall 'Viking burial with stuff' ever appearing in any research design I've ever worked to...and you know perfectly well that reseach designs are meant to be updated. first and foremost you do what you are paid for - then you ask for more as per your caveats and contingencies for unexpected finds. if that dosent materialise you stick with wsi and the approved research design. i have never let let a project go t**ts up on the costings because i nail down the reserch design. those 120 burials and viking burial with stuff would have been covered by EH unless your eval was inadequate/sloppy?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers