HS2 high-speed - archaeologists jamboree?

[Jack]

.....<snip> Until archaeologists start working for the land owners AGAINST "developers" with real costs based on proper evaluation methods Mr Woolldridges £30000 is whimsy but for a few consultants chancers paid to sit at Public Inquiries.

Until the landowners understand that archaeology value is based on "doing" archaeology all we are going to get is archaeologists going through the motions. And we all know what motions are.

interesting

Yes.........very interesting. Devious, underhand, morally in the black..............but in line with the rest of the 'business world'

If landowners valued the archaeology under their topsoil, could place a money value on it, then this value would be added to the compensation paid and hence would be a money spinner for landowners.

Witness the mass explosion of archaeological evaluation of land across the country....but with a pre-disposition that missing valuable archaeology would result in a costly court case for those who did the work!

Archaeology for grown ups! I love it}