15th September 2011, 10:50 PM
trowelfodder Wrote:
It worries me the number of reponses from archaeologists who are questioning the value of the work undertaken and the standard of advice given! The contractors are not victims
A quick skim back through the thread suggests that the vast amount of criticism of the contractor comes from a single contributor, who, so far as I'm aware, has seldom made a positive comment about anything, so I don't think that these can necessarily be taken as representative of the opinion of the wider archaeological community. As I said above, I'm not particularly comfortable with any organisation that acts as both curator and contractor, something that doesn't just apply to the Welsh trusts but also to council units who both advise the planning department and also undertake the fieldwork, or commercial contractors who also act as curators, but it wasn't my intention to suggest that the tendering process wasn't open or fair. My aim was simply to suggest to Unit the pension situation of the company involved was less of an issue than he appears to believe.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum