12th September 2016, 06:53 PM
P Prentice Wrote:the standard is and always has been the one you can get away with
Disagree with that entirely [sorry it took 5 months for me to notice that, been busy] - the standard is the one you can be bothered to work to, within whatever pathetic budget has been arranged etc. Just because the spec. has been fulfilled doesn't have to be the end, e.g. that paper that has my name somewhere on the front of it in Britannia 46 is entirely down to me spending 10 years of my own time prodding people to get something done with a really interesting group of material that EH wasn't prepared to fund research on at the time off the Aggregate Levy. And I've noticed a few units seem to do/publish odd bits of research that don't seem to have any obvious external funding. I've got a couple of groups of finds material from a 'dead' project out there with university researchers right now (one as part of an ecological/historical study, more conservation than archaeology but still interesting, the other since a post-grad needed experience doing recording/catalogue and I had a bunch of material needing same), and I'm currently writing a couple of papers on other stuff.
Suppose its the difference between 9-5 and being interested in archaeology?