19th August 2009, 02:32 PM
Uo1
'Sorry I will just go back and read a very short and obscure document called peepee some number apparently it?s a guidance mentions something called a report and preservation by record, nothing about having a whole university department of specialists sitting around an expensive office expecting jobs for life and a pension of the backs of the diggers.'
If you are going to quote PPG16 then please read it first.
paragraph 25 (d)Arrangements For Preservation By Record Including Farming:
'Such excavation and recording should be carried out before development commences, working to a project brief prepared by the planning authority and taking advice from archaeological consultants. This can be achieved through agreements reached between the developer, the archaeologist and the planning authority. Such agreements should also provide for the subsequent publication of the results of the excavation. In the absence of such agreements planning authorities can secure excavation and recording by imposing conditions.'
And before you attempt to argue that the final sentence does not mention publication please take note of the rest of the text where it makes it clear that agreements to record by preservation should also provide for the publication of the results. The conditions are imposed where such agreements cannot be reached and therefore are a formal way of ensuring that excavation and recording take place as they would if there was an agreement. Hence the requirement for the agreement to provide for the publication of the results will form part of the condition.
You are not the only mad archaeologist out there and slips like this do nothing for the reputation of all the other deranged people who do check the fine print.
'Sorry I will just go back and read a very short and obscure document called peepee some number apparently it?s a guidance mentions something called a report and preservation by record, nothing about having a whole university department of specialists sitting around an expensive office expecting jobs for life and a pension of the backs of the diggers.'
If you are going to quote PPG16 then please read it first.
paragraph 25 (d)Arrangements For Preservation By Record Including Farming:
'Such excavation and recording should be carried out before development commences, working to a project brief prepared by the planning authority and taking advice from archaeological consultants. This can be achieved through agreements reached between the developer, the archaeologist and the planning authority. Such agreements should also provide for the subsequent publication of the results of the excavation. In the absence of such agreements planning authorities can secure excavation and recording by imposing conditions.'
And before you attempt to argue that the final sentence does not mention publication please take note of the rest of the text where it makes it clear that agreements to record by preservation should also provide for the publication of the results. The conditions are imposed where such agreements cannot be reached and therefore are a formal way of ensuring that excavation and recording take place as they would if there was an agreement. Hence the requirement for the agreement to provide for the publication of the results will form part of the condition.
You are not the only mad archaeologist out there and slips like this do nothing for the reputation of all the other deranged people who do check the fine print.