13th January 2012, 12:25 PM
Jack Wrote:A shocking but seemingly unstoppable current working methodology involves stripping a 5-10m wide strip under archaeological conditions along the length of the corridor. If you don't find any archaeology within that strip, the rest of the topsoil within the 20m, 30m etc wide impact footprint gets buldozed off, destroying any trace of the archaeology just outside the initial strip.
when i invented this it was a good compromise for the landscape i was in - didnt know it would be rolled out as precedent
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers