16th July 2014, 01:18 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:One of the problems is that there is so little money invested in research and synthesis of UK archaeological data.
Any good DBA should provide a synthesis of at least the data local to the proposed development, whether from published, grey lit, notes on HERs, a bit of DBA-related research and, of course, pers. comms. from the people who really know the area (that rarely happens, of course, where units are 'working away') - larger schemes obviously require DBAs covering wider areas. The road scheme I'm currently involved in has provided an opportunity to do this over what is effectively a small 'region' at various stages of the project. Once we're all producing 'good' DBAs any wider synthesis should then become a piece of p**s? - but then one day pigs might fly too...