3rd November 2008, 03:56 PM
"Preservation In-situ be damned. Archaeologists need work! "
Perhaps now is the time to spend some time and money on excavating a few of these sites which will fall into the sea in the next twenty years as the coast erodes. I can think of a few that would be good candidates and ther are probably a fair number that would make good "community archaeology" projects, with the added advantage that if you get any real pain in the arris types turning up to dig you can always tie them to a few sacks of soil samples and lob them onto the foreshore on a rising tide!.
Perhaps now is the time to spend some time and money on excavating a few of these sites which will fall into the sea in the next twenty years as the coast erodes. I can think of a few that would be good candidates and ther are probably a fair number that would make good "community archaeology" projects, with the added advantage that if you get any real pain in the arris types turning up to dig you can always tie them to a few sacks of soil samples and lob them onto the foreshore on a rising tide!.