16th October 2012, 12:24 PM
Any amount of archaeology I've had to leave 'in situ' over the years has then been trashed, amazing how many destructive activities not covered by planning consents happen around the thing that's got the planning permission (many curators seem to think that 'indicative' drainage plans have something to do with reality? - errr, no! and there's a horrifying lack of curatorial understanding of how big a hole the developer is going to make around the thing they're building, footing trenches are rarely the same size as the agreed footings by the time the whole thing's fallen in a few times and they've ended up shuttering and backfilling...) -and I know of a few sites where the developer waited till the archaeologists had gone then had the rest out anyway....