18th May 2010, 08:47 AM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:.....Secondly I recommend anyone who believes that the IfA was set up to benefit solely commercial archaeologists to refer to the signatarees to the first articles of Association of the IfA. The 19 names include the then head of the CBA, several county archaeologists, a whole lot of academics....but I don't see the name of a single commercial archaeologist.....
Would be slightly surprising if the few despised commercial archaeologists in the dim and distant pre-PPG16 days had appeared! - the county archaeologists in those days represented pretty much all of the digging forces....