17th September 2013, 12:42 PM
Jack Wrote:On large projects, especially in the pre-planning stage, good archaeological companies/consultants produce DBA's and/or contribute to the project environment statement (ES) including HER/NMR searches, aerial photography searches (or google earth - hooray), Lidar inspection, site walkover, fieldwalking, geophysical survey and trial-trenching to test the previous info. From these and varying forms of predictive modelling, recommendations are made, which are often followed and/or adapted. These recommendations can include site avoidance, the best form of mitigation.
Think you missed a few, GI monitoring and topo spring to mind straight off, am sure there are more, and I hope your DBAs use a bit more than just HER/NMR!