16th January 2014, 06:58 PM
Jack Wrote:Not to do with metal detecting, but flint.....The English Heritage Research Strategy for Prehistory (consultation draft) does have 'Critical Priority 3: Understanding 'sites without structures' - i.e. flint scatters, but points out that the topsoil is a valuable resource that needs proper evaluation in developer-funded archaeology.
Am working on a major infrastructure project now where a significant proportion of the scheme has never been fieldwalked (and bits that have at various times/standards) and never will be, so kiss goodbye to any of the flint scatters which are centainly about, as highlighted by someone's PhD which was, (in)conveniently, a fieldwalking project finding flint scatters on part of the route...