6th June 2007, 09:50 AM
This is a fascinating little insight into the weird and confused world of the Ministry of Justice. Were BAJRites aware that the Ministry is currently refusing to issue section 25 burial licences to archaeologists at the moment, pending a legal review? It seems they've decided that the Secretary of State doesn't have the power to authorise "retention, testing, or examination of the remains - or indeed any intervening act which is not directly related to removal or the subsequent reinterment or cremation of the remains".
Sorry Mesolithic Viking - you might well be interested in taphonomy and post-depositional processes, or a whole host of other scientific studies relating to human remains, but anything that doesn't involve immediate reburial or cremation of excavated human remains is now quite probably illegal.
Sorry Mesolithic Viking - you might well be interested in taphonomy and post-depositional processes, or a whole host of other scientific studies relating to human remains, but anything that doesn't involve immediate reburial or cremation of excavated human remains is now quite probably illegal.