14th July 2008, 06:01 PM
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One example of what I believe was an MSC project involved local inmates excavating/clearing the basement of a small castle. Funnily enough they didn't find any finds! Certainly a monopoly on the basis of the pre-PPG days would be bad, but it would be a completely different situation if it happened now, which it obviously won't. As someone already pointed out the existance of Tesco doesn't result in every other shop closing down (not quite anyway!) That's probably a poor example - the existance of large building companis doesn't led to the closure of all the small ones; after all, who gets Persimmon to build them an extension?
That's exactly it. I don't have a problem with the the expansion that was originally the point of this thread. I also don't have a problem with the fact that some people don't think that competitive tendering/PPG16 was a good thing. I just happen not to agree with them! I'm not saying it's ideal, but it's better than what was there before. And yes, lots of the MSC stuff didn't get written up, but then that was pretty par for the course anyway. My very 1st job on MSC was as an archives person, trying to sort out some excavations that had been done by various people who had clearly taken the line that if they never wrote anything up, no-one could critisise their work until after they had shuffled of this mortal coil. And no-one was monitoring them. Remember, EH wasn't even set up until (if I remember rightly) 1984?
(I still get cold sweats remembering the multiple years with the same trench and context numbers, where they didn't write which it year it was on the records....... which genuinely included backs of fag packets!)