I have recently had a Friday the thirteenth case where I tried to be sure that the client fully realised that they owned the objects on their land but failed miserably. This was the out come.
20th May 2016
Mr M. Berger
Beam End
Muckton
XXXXXX
XXXX
Dear Mr Berger
Please find attached cheque for £875.00 being the fee due for preparing a
specification and submitting to XXXXXXX District Council.
We are obviously unable to pay for the other two items on the invoice as you
did not do either service! We advised you in writing on Friday 13th May that we
no longer required your services, which you acknowledged, and as far as we
are concerned your involvement with our project ended then. You can hardly
think it acceptable to charge for work which you were available for so could
have done, but did not do!
You advised us to submit the invoice to the Council for them to pay which is
ludicrous.
As we have told you numerous times we took advice from the Historic
Environment Department at XXXXXXX County Council to ensure we worked
with an archaeologist who would attend to the whole process of the works
needed, in order for eventual discharge of the planning condition on our
planning permission. We were advised that there was an issue of outstanding
archive non-deposition with yourself and we therefore contracted the services
of another archaeologist whose specification has been approved with no issue.
If you have any issue regarding the above, we suggest you take the matter up
with the Council as we refuse to discuss the matter with you any further.
Yours sincerely,
tt4i t/* L i /t l/(lii''
Mr and Mrs XXXXXX
What "must" an archaeologist do to be sure that they have followed the Cifas guidance on ownership?
20th May 2016
Mr M. Berger
Beam End
Muckton
XXXXXX
XXXX
Dear Mr Berger
Please find attached cheque for £875.00 being the fee due for preparing a
specification and submitting to XXXXXXX District Council.
We are obviously unable to pay for the other two items on the invoice as you
did not do either service! We advised you in writing on Friday 13th May that we
no longer required your services, which you acknowledged, and as far as we
are concerned your involvement with our project ended then. You can hardly
think it acceptable to charge for work which you were available for so could
have done, but did not do!
You advised us to submit the invoice to the Council for them to pay which is
ludicrous.
As we have told you numerous times we took advice from the Historic
Environment Department at XXXXXXX County Council to ensure we worked
with an archaeologist who would attend to the whole process of the works
needed, in order for eventual discharge of the planning condition on our
planning permission. We were advised that there was an issue of outstanding
archive non-deposition with yourself and we therefore contracted the services
of another archaeologist whose specification has been approved with no issue.
If you have any issue regarding the above, we suggest you take the matter up
with the Council as we refuse to discuss the matter with you any further.
Yours sincerely,
tt4i t/* L i /t l/(lii''
Mr and Mrs XXXXXX
What "must" an archaeologist do to be sure that they have followed the Cifas guidance on ownership?
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist