22nd December 2008, 11:46 AM
David, do you mean that you expect contractors to do more work than the WSI specifies? How does this normally go down with clients and their consultants? Surely 'adequate' is by definition, well, adequate. I do agree with the comments above that it is really all down to archaeologists in their various guises, and in some cases, the brief needs to be more comprehensive. However, I've aslo been on sites where the unit has systematically cocked it up, and then the staff gets all indignant when the consultant and curator comes down hard on them.