10th March 2006, 04:53 PM
Quote:quote:an all-in day rate is more common for WB's
Perhaps so, but we don't have an all in rate. I'm not sure of the thinking on this, but suspect that the scale of the post-ex on long watching briefs with loads of archaeology quickly exceeds the ability of a day rate to cover it. The specialist costs for large assemblages alone could be huge. And they are. If a long term WB is generating the quantity of records and finds of an excavation then how can a day rate for (probably) a single archaeologist cover it?