13th March 2017, 11:24 AM
Quote:Who'd expect dead people around the west end of a church?
Just about anybody who should have followed the apabe advice to do an evaluation. The apabe document does not have watching brief in its lexicon. I don't think that watching briefs should be allowed near churches without there having been a dba and or a field evaluation. How did trench arch get into the document as a mitigation? There is a first edition for the document produced in 2005. What has suddenly compelled this bunch to get all updaty. I would be interested in seeing a first edition, its on scribed but I am not subscribing for a government document...
These are four roughly 60square metre trench arch excavations in Lincolnshire churches from which there isn't a report
Quote:Environmental Permitting Regulations - Discharges to water and groundwater for England
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HOLY TRINITY, HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, ALFORD ROAD, BILSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, LN13 9PY
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ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE CHURCH, MAIN STREET, THORNTON CURTIS, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, DN39 6XW
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ST ANDREWS, ST ANDREWS CHURCH, STEWTON LANE, STEWTON, LOUTH, LINCOLNSHIRE, LN11 8SF
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ST MARYS, TRENCH AT ST MARYS CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD, OLD LEAKE, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, PE22 9PD
That's possibly 240 square metres without including holes in church walls and floors. The St Lawrence one had a watching brief on a soakaway in 2011 so its not as if the church had never heard about archaeology
[URL="http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-816-1/dissemination/pdf/preconst3-103280_1.pdf"]ST LAWRENCE CHURCH, MAIN STREET, THORNTON CURTIS, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, DN39 6XW
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.....nature was dead and the past does not exist