24th October 2011, 12:30 PM
Horses for courses, the site report is aimed at a particular audience and fulfils a specific purpose. There is no reason why, apart from cost and time, that the report cannot be condensed into a more reader friendly publicly available publication. In the Manchester area this is now being built into the conditions for some of the larger developments so is developer funded. There are now at least three of these glossy little booklets in general circulation with more on the way. Though with the current threat to county archaeology services this may not continue.