21st January 2005, 06:04 PM
So what do you do after lunch?
So, we are as one, then: the only people who can or should monitor are curators, BUT (and in my own defence, I have always acknowledged this) they are hopelessly under-resourced - and lets be honest are always likely to be, until we get more enlightened government (local and national) and voters willing to stump up. Or we totally change the system... a man can dream.
So it seems we have to rely on the diggers to use the hotline, but the word needs to be spread beyond those who use this forum and look at the BAJR site.
IFA (or an equivalent body) can't do anything until/unless they become mandatory. It's ironic - on a building site every electrician, gas fitter, fork truck driver, and so on has to have a ticket to say he/she can do it, but effectively anyone can claim to be a contracting archaeologist!
So, we are as one, then: the only people who can or should monitor are curators, BUT (and in my own defence, I have always acknowledged this) they are hopelessly under-resourced - and lets be honest are always likely to be, until we get more enlightened government (local and national) and voters willing to stump up. Or we totally change the system... a man can dream.
So it seems we have to rely on the diggers to use the hotline, but the word needs to be spread beyond those who use this forum and look at the BAJR site.
IFA (or an equivalent body) can't do anything until/unless they become mandatory. It's ironic - on a building site every electrician, gas fitter, fork truck driver, and so on has to have a ticket to say he/she can do it, but effectively anyone can claim to be a contracting archaeologist!