11th July 2014, 03:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 11th July 2014, 03:49 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
I think Barking is right.....the problem that archaeology has. after years of following a pattern of undercutting, is how to create the increase in funding necessary to pay for an increase in wages. Whilst that might not make much of a dent in the overall cost of developments and development led archaeology, somewhere along the line it will eat into somebodies profits. Can't think of anyone right now who would happily hand over their profits to archaeologists, unless hit with a very big stick or threatened with legal action. Unfortunately archaeology doesn't possess a big stick and legal remedies would require a sea change in the way that archaeology is managed in the UK...... (By legal remedies I mean a legal requirement to pay for archaeological product)
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