3rd November 2008, 04:18 PM
Fair point, m300572, but that would require a great deal more money than EH has, or any other government department or agency has been willing to spend on this problem. We have spent some time evaluating the archaeology of the cliff-edge of Whitby Headland, and have a good understanding of the high quality and significance of the archaeology that is falling into the sea, but there's no adequate funding for a programme of this scale or scope.
In response to Mercenary's point, I don't currently work for the bit of EH that allocates its grants for historic environment research, but this amounts to only £4.668m this year - which would not put much of a dent in the sort of programme you're talking about. If you need to know what the available money is being spent on, see http://hec.english-heritage.org.uk/admis...e/HOME.asp
Brian
Resistance is futile. Your project documentation will be MoRPHE-compliant.
In response to Mercenary's point, I don't currently work for the bit of EH that allocates its grants for historic environment research, but this amounts to only £4.668m this year - which would not put much of a dent in the sort of programme you're talking about. If you need to know what the available money is being spent on, see http://hec.english-heritage.org.uk/admis...e/HOME.asp
Brian
Resistance is futile. Your project documentation will be MoRPHE-compliant.