What would eh know about buying land for development?

[Marc Berger]

you dont get 800 k upfront. Its a libility on the seller. anything over is down to the current owner. The whole point is to have a full evaluation prior to the sale. The point of the evaluation is estimate the costs of excavation. Its that figure which is relevant to presevation in situ. I presume that the figure was made up by the consultant without an evaluation. What would be interesting to know is if the consultant took out any insurance in the event that that figure was proved to be inadequate

In this eh document https://content.historicengland.org.uk/i...udies.pdf/ page 18 they use a term "evaluation excavation". neither one thing or another. This whole document is not any kind of advice for whom it says its for. Can you find anything relevant in it. Basically it does not address what evaluation is which is to asses costs of excvation by evatuation and I would also suggest that it does not provide an assemnet for costs for preservation in situ either. Not really very helpfull in the real world more like a public service diary of justification
based on whats in an emergancy fund for developers who have fulfilled their obligations in eh's eyes.

I think that archaeologists should clearly define where the moneys coming from before even starting an evaluation