21st February 2013, 04:18 PM
our taxes go to pay public servants to run the country. The problem is that the public servants then think up ways of running the country which cannot be afforded by the country particularly people in the future. Some of the problems is that once they thought that doing archaeology was something that was for the good of the people but they also thought that it was such a good idea that only they should do it. They decided that they should have muesueums the problem though was how many, how big and where to put them as well as the little problem of what were they for and what should they have in them. For a very short time in history this cosy little world existed until it started to unravel bit by bit. The first to go was archaeologists directly working for the council as this was very expensive for pensions. They said archaeologists must be commercial. This is like saying that we must buy and sell. You seem to want me to give and give. Now I work for landowners although you like to call the developers and as landowners apart from very dubious laws about treasure they own the archaeology on their land and there is not a single law in this land that I know of which says that they must give up their archaeology to the good of the public particularly the town and country plannings act which barely mentions archaeology. Sorry but please where is the serious point that you were trying to make, was it that I should tell little old ladies that the archaeology on their land does not belong to them beecause if it is true and if its goibng to cost them money I dont see why they should give a fig about it and probably just encourage they to do things to the land such as subsoil it which thwy are allowed to do friend
Reason: your past is my past