8th January 2011, 01:33 PM
The Raunds Area Project of (much of) the 1980s also had 200+ on various sites at its height (assorted sites in Raunds, Stanwick Villa, West Cotton, the Irthlingborough Barrows, fieldwalking team etc) run by the Central Unit and the Northamptonshire county unit - as far as I'm aware that was all central government funded, either DoE (the Central Unit bits and some of the Northants stuff), the rest MSC (most of the Northants sites and fieldwalking team). Am not aware any 'private' money got ploughed into it at all, the whole thing must have cost ?millions - indeed presumably central government money has continued to be spent on the PX, or has it been funded through the ALF?
Of all the myriad sites that I worked on during the 1980s I've only been able identify about 6 (some uncertain additional ones) where I'm aware that there was any 'client' funding involved at all - 5 of those were tiny, the sixth was a real biggy but the staff were mainly MSC so still only a limited 'commercial' input.
On the driving licence thing, what happened to people passing their test age 17-18 before going to Uni? Discussed it with my (non-archaeological) drinking crew and 80% of those quizzed had one by age 18, I actually let the side down by finally passing the test age 23 (and 100% hold one now, including partners, total sample size 28, varied employment ranging from unemployed/housewives etc through plumber, NHS etc, up to 'chief software architect' and a managing director) - although admittedly the age range interrogated was 35-50ish, and I do agree that I wouldn't fancy having to re-take mine these days, those roads are getting scary!
Of all the myriad sites that I worked on during the 1980s I've only been able identify about 6 (some uncertain additional ones) where I'm aware that there was any 'client' funding involved at all - 5 of those were tiny, the sixth was a real biggy but the staff were mainly MSC so still only a limited 'commercial' input.
On the driving licence thing, what happened to people passing their test age 17-18 before going to Uni? Discussed it with my (non-archaeological) drinking crew and 80% of those quizzed had one by age 18, I actually let the side down by finally passing the test age 23 (and 100% hold one now, including partners, total sample size 28, varied employment ranging from unemployed/housewives etc through plumber, NHS etc, up to 'chief software architect' and a managing director) - although admittedly the age range interrogated was 35-50ish, and I do agree that I wouldn't fancy having to re-take mine these days, those roads are getting scary!