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Another rather interesting fact has just come to light, regarding how much Time Team are prepared to pay a unit for the use of its staff as shovel monkeys.
It seems they will only pay around ?60 a day per person, which is well below the charge out rate for most contracting units. As we are a County Council unit guess who had to make up the shortfall. Yep, the tax payers.
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If they wanted diggers, then surely they should have to pay what your unit told them the proper charge was? Couldn't they have been told where to stick their inadequate ?60 per day and get their diggers from elsewhere?
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Regards the Ireland digs in the North, you'd need to to ask the Environment and Heritage Service about that... I don't want to repeat what I heard online
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Curator Kid
If they wanted diggers, then surely they should have to pay what your unit told them the proper charge was? Couldn't they have been told where to stick their inadequate ?60 per day and get their diggers from elsewhere?
As I understand it we were pressured into taking part by the High Muck a Muck Ups in County Hall, looking for good publicity. It certainly wasn't anything to do with my Unit Manager who is decidedly NOT a fan
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There's a list of the sites that Time Team have published on their website here
http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/reports.html
Anyone got any idea how this measures up against the number of sites for which there is no kind of report whatsoever?
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Agree with you Troll. Big problem in lots of the county units that have been around since the seventies is this ten year publication. I dont think its always the fault of the people now at the units, sometimes its a hangover from big city based (e.g. Winchester) loads of collected data, or projects done during the transition from opportunist research work to commercial work (e.g. some East Anglian sites sites). BUT it is a big problem. However it has got worse since PPG16 as more sites have been dug with sucessfully negotiated budgets which then stall or completely fall down at assessment stage if there is no individual to drive the monograph forward to gain some fortune and glory. The answer is for all units to together own up about how fu**ing expensive a full post-ex is likely to be. But this wont happen without legislation.
However, I disagree with Curator Kid about implementing Valetta article 3. This is mainly because I wouldnt trust the government or EH to book the brewery for the p*ss up, let alone issue a fair piece of legislation. Private Archaeological work should be monitored/regulated (i.e deadlines, research frameworks and quality control) in some way, but who regulates it is a whole new debate...
Back to my ditches.
Gumbo
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I hear what you're saying Gumbo. The Government should be applauded for signing up to Valletta in the first place, but the implementation of it since has been non-existent. The convention has no real purpose other than to ensure that the archaeological heritage is looked after properly, and this just isn't happening - as we all know. English Heritage should be pushing for better legislation, but currently appears to be more intent on withdrawing from performing any practical role in archaeology at all. The question of who should be regulating the archaeological work is quite clearly open to debate, but at the moment, outside of the planning system, nobody is responsible for doing any proper quality control. This means that any old Tom, Dick or Harry can knacker a perfectly good site for TV ratings, treasure hunting or just plain old fun. Surely that shouldn't be allowed to continue?
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I was once on a site that time team really wanted to dig on...the reply to them was a big fat NNOOOO (or similar words that are much too rude to put here)
Lucky really...
On a similar note...them idiots the were on that terribe 'Extreme Archaeology' borrowed some equiptment of ours....it all came back broken....:face-confused:
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I worked a few years back where TT had been. They found some proper shiny stuff in graves, big news stuff. As a result we were plagued by nighthawks, even though we were only doing geophys. I suppose they thought we had big shiny thing detectors....
I agree with what everyone says about Ainsworth. He clearly knows his stuff, and keeps the focus as real as he can. Likewise the Desk based guy...
The most memorable thing for me was their visit to the Big Dig in Canterbury. Not so much the archaeology, but Kent Unit desperately trying to raise money from teh public to keep the project going, and even a visit to the diggers house. It looked like something from the third world, and even Baldrick looked shocked when they said what they were being charged...
