8th June 2011, 07:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 8th June 2011, 07:32 PM by Marcus Brody.)
Dinosaur Wrote:can't imagine a lot of the clients I work with wanting effectively Joe Public all over their dangerous demolition/construction/extraction sites
To be honest, most developers don't want any archaeologists on their dangerous demolition/construction/extraction sites, but they're forced to accomodate them because it's a condition of their planning consent that they have to deal with archaeology. Similarly, if public involvement were to become a standard requirement, I'm sure a way could be found to accommodate volunteers (albeit with much moaning and bleating from the developers, which probably wouldn't sound that much different from their current moaning and bleating about having to pay to deal with archaeology at all, 'making the development uneconomic, paying for someone else's hobby, time team could do it in three days, blah blah blah...')
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum