26th November 2014, 03:02 PM
When you are self employed you are not in or out of a "job" so to speak. Jobs have first contact doing something then exchange of invoice for remuneration, I have got "jobs" started on the books going back years but can find many days in the week when I am not digging. I agree the reality is that we are mostly complacent are made to expect the so called curators to be "monitoring" everything. They never have fully and archaeology should not be a matter of opinion based on negative presumptions based on having a SMR but instead pure field evaluation which should be simply done pre-application unless a heritage assessment states a case that an evaluation is not required. We should be screaming at every client that comes our way to evaluate or put a heritage statement in with their application. The planning authorities should not accept an application if it does not have a heritage statement with it.
The facts are that no archaeologist should expect to be in a job next week unless they have already started it. Sites are finite and widely distributed. They are not conducive to anybody expecting a salary out of them unless subsidized or overcharged due to monopoly practises.
The facts are that no archaeologist should expect to be in a job next week unless they have already started it. Sites are finite and widely distributed. They are not conducive to anybody expecting a salary out of them unless subsidized or overcharged due to monopoly practises.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist