4th June 2015, 11:38 AM
Quote:There's still some unprofessional / cowboy units out there and some ''consultants'' / county mounties cut from the same cloth.but these people don't dig. Their standards are nothing to do with digging. The only time I come into contact with these cowboys is when I am trying to win a contract and most contracts come to me. When the mounties try to stop me working it has nothing to do with my ability to dig. I don't expect them to be able to stop me digging and I don't expect that they should be able to stop anybody else digging no matter how bad their reputation. The ethos is this. Archaeology is disappearing before our eyes at a faster rate than anybody can manage, coastal erosion, ploughing, agrichemicals, people landscaping, permitted developments as well as permitted. If any body gets a look at anything we should be grateful. If you think though that you can pin a pension on it, well look out because its gets bloody nasty.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist