13th February 2014, 02:13 PM
GnomeKing Wrote:nevermind that - planned excavtions are likley being trashed by muddy archaeologists under badly thought out briefs, desperate to meet an arbitary commercail deadline - county archaeologists are even more likley to give the most cursory of inspections, and a doubt any will have the guts call a halt to a project until it is workable (ie can not meet original brief > therefore conditions not met).
there are real issues here, espevcially for preshistoric and more empheral archaeology (esp on multiperiod sites with other more obvious features) >
(What does the InstituteOfFA have to say ?, or still a bit tipsy after the celebratory 'do'...)
Currently digging the features around the edges (luckily it's a very big site with lots of edge) and on some gravel 'islands' and shouting at people who continue to leave 3" deep bootprints across the middle of the site for no good reason other than laziness (they'll find out when they're asked to hoe them out further down the line), but there are limits to how much of that sort of thing one can do to preserve the archaeology
