30th July 2008, 06:31 PM
No problem with your suggestion in principle, RedEarth. You'd have to ask CSA/Archaeology Scotland why they have a separate event, as I think I suggested the last time this question came up.
There is a practical issue, in that NAW/FOBA is timed just before the beginning of the school holidays in England and Wales, which makes sense down here, but the schools break up much earlier in Scotland, or at least they did in my day. So, during NAW/FOBA,many Scots will be turning an alarming shade of red on a beach somewhere rather than participating in archaeology-related events. [8D]
It does raise a question about the relationship between CBA and Archaeology Scotland, which seem to me to be drifting apart. This may be one of the unintended (or at least unpredicted) consequences of the devolution settlement, in which Scotland seems to be more determined to do its own thing, because it now can, but then again this tendency has been around for a while - it was CBA Scotland when I briefly graced its committee. Maybe it's just because we're thrawn ('perverse, obstinate, contrary, cross-grained, intractable, not amenable, in a dour sullen mood', according to the on-line Dictionary of the Scots Language).
Brian
There is a practical issue, in that NAW/FOBA is timed just before the beginning of the school holidays in England and Wales, which makes sense down here, but the schools break up much earlier in Scotland, or at least they did in my day. So, during NAW/FOBA,many Scots will be turning an alarming shade of red on a beach somewhere rather than participating in archaeology-related events. [8D]
It does raise a question about the relationship between CBA and Archaeology Scotland, which seem to me to be drifting apart. This may be one of the unintended (or at least unpredicted) consequences of the devolution settlement, in which Scotland seems to be more determined to do its own thing, because it now can, but then again this tendency has been around for a while - it was CBA Scotland when I briefly graced its committee. Maybe it's just because we're thrawn ('perverse, obstinate, contrary, cross-grained, intractable, not amenable, in a dour sullen mood', according to the on-line Dictionary of the Scots Language).
Brian