10th October 2014, 11:03 AM
Marc Berger Wrote:what you need is a pre evaluation, evaluation.
by what law are they doing the archaeology? Theres a lot of so called ex council units in this type work as often its based on some ancient pre-war mineral right.. Normally joined up with where the county authority wants the gravel to go into public council developments. Do the gravel quarries in the winter or the year before, the roads in the summer. How has it saved a fortune?
New Permission awarded in ??2005ish actually (ran on from a previous one, can't remember offhand which year), with archaeology built in (as had the previous)
Saved a fortune as in not wasting money on evaluation? Big bit of landscape was always going to have archaeology anyway, and geofizz rarely shows stuff on rural sites that you can't see equally well by good old fashioned topsoil stripping - brown soily bits in the gravel. Big infrastructure project we're doing at the moment has (and is) demonstrated amply that geofizz misses a proportion (carefull wording here - politics - somewhere between 0-100%) of the archaeology on some subsoils and hence can be a poor guide to what's there to be dealt with. If its going to be trashed anyway, simpler just to get the top off and see whats there. Did a big site years back where the geofizz was great - apart from the 120 dead people with oodles of stuff
