20th September 2012, 08:52 AM
A large part of the problem in British archaeology seems to be the sheer number of tiers of archaeologists, all adding on their percentage. On a recent scheme we (a consultancy/fieldwork outfit, we're regularly the consultant on similar jobs) were working to an 'archaeological clerk of works' employed by the main contractor, who was working to an environmental consultancy who, in archaeological terms, were working to an archaeological consultant...errr....might have been a lot simpler, cheaper and the job would have gone a h*** of a lot more smoothly (and the archaeology done a lot better) if maybe only one tier of archaeologists had been involved...and the cost savings could maybe have been passed on by, say, doubling the workforce's wages.... :face-thinks: