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Umm...that does seem a little heavy handed John!! I hope someone from YAT reads on this, because it is clearly embarrasing for what is normally such a forward thinking organisation to have its...

Whilst it might be considered fun to take the piss out of other peoples work (especially other peoples PhDs), we shouldn't be distracted from the fact that the results of our archaeological...

I'd be happy for the National Trust to be in charge providing it were independent of government and planners, but backed by legislation. somewhat akin to the proposals being put forward for the...

Actually I cheated a little with my suggestions, because everything I suggested exists at present in the way that archaeology is set up in Norway.

Not 'everywhere' in Europe has commercial...

1) Appoint a single body responsible for all UK archaeology
2) Remove archaeological decision making from local authority control and vest it in new national body
3) Prohibit commercial...

The 1884 Disused Burial grounds legislation defines a burial ground as 'any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set apart for the purpose of...

Can I recommend the English Heritage/CofE working party publication. Although designed primarilly for post 7th century burials it contains advice applicable to burials of all dates.....not sure how...

But.....most archaeological 'exhumations' these days take place as a result of development of former burial grounds. Therefore the 1884 and 1981 Disused Burial grounds legislation applies as well as...

I know it can't possibly be applied across the board, but I like the approach that English Heritage take with job applications where CVs are not accepted, but there is an online application form...

If we have licencing and professional training courses with examinations, a 'Skills Passport' is an irrelevance. What instead you have is basically the IfA proposal on Chartered Membership with the...

I don't see that a sign-off on a Skills Passport is any more or less open to question than a written or verbal reference given as part of a job application. If the person reviewing the application...

Reopening this thread and following on from Beamo's post. This is the original Clancy study (from the Scientific American website) into sexual harassment of field workers in the US. (I'm not entirely...

Most tanning pits used a mixture of oak bark and urine.....but my experience suggests there is also some reaction with the clay that lined the pits, perhaps creating some kind of lye that would...

But it could be a problem. One of the major (and repeated) reasons quoted for non-confidence in the IfA is that the first wave of membership was self-validated. You wouldn't want your excellent...

I think what is possibly shows is that there is a mismatch between the standard that is deemed 'minimal but adequate' by curators and that which many archaeologists would consider the minimum needed....

Not forgetting the iniquities of the Poll Tax where the citizens of the 3 richest London boroughs had a zero rating and paid nothing whilst those living in London's 3 poorest boroughs paid the...

I was thinking of Stanwick/Raunds (cos I know a few BAJRites spent time there...)

That's not entirely true. It would be more accurate to say that the skills possessed by many archaeologists employed in commercial archaeology are not skills they acquired at university. It is not...

So would you be suggesting that the 'capitalist' wage paid to most UK archaeologists is a fair wage for a fair days work? I don't think so and as I wouldn't be blaming the workers, I guess I'll...

Apart from the Miners strike...and the steelworkers strike.....and the Poll Tax strike..and the Greenham protests. Mark Steel ha a piece in the Independent about Corby - a whole town killed by...

That's right and lest we forget that was under a Conservative government that included a minister called M Thatcher......

Well there's a nice piece of Daily Mail-ism for you..!! You must be getting your militant unions muddled up!! The miners didn't strike in 78-79, the power stayed on...there were council workers out,...

You want our old friend HSG174...http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg174.pdf

Her policies made British archaeology what it is today. Discuss.......

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