21st January 2005, 02:35 PM
Agreed that I should be monitoring every site... but until I have mastered the mysterious art of two places at once... I have to 'do what I can' the same is true for most of us... where more and more work is heaped on us... and less and less resources are provided. A County Archaeologist is now required to deal with Countryside Stewardship Schemes, Local Societies, Development Control, Report approval, In house Council requests, Historic Enviroment Record Collation, Standards checking, keeping up to date in every aspect of archaeology to have a handle on what is the latest thought, managing the consultations between large national industries, such as Water and Electrics or Roads and Transport. through in a few lectures, a request for a tourism leaflet and suddenly a simple job becomes a 'help me i am drowning' ...
It would be good for everyone to have a period of being a County for say 2 weeks... ... and strangley... there is not even a course to take to become one... you just have to 'know' all the legislation by magic.
Any hoo.... the diggers are best placed to see behind the neat site prepared for the regal site visit.
I hope that as developers time is money and the more money teh Contractor costs them through errors they are unlikely to be used again... and this soon gets round.
It would be good for everyone to have a period of being a County for say 2 weeks... ... and strangley... there is not even a course to take to become one... you just have to 'know' all the legislation by magic.
Any hoo.... the diggers are best placed to see behind the neat site prepared for the regal site visit.
I hope that as developers time is money and the more money teh Contractor costs them through errors they are unlikely to be used again... and this soon gets round.