Detecting A Bright Future

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Any chance of a link?

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

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First refusal



Second refusal

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:face-huh: thats you told then!

For others:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/serve...ebDoc.6018




"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

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I prefer the link I have already given earlier in the thread

http://www2.defra.gov.uk/research/Projec...O&V=OXARCH

which starts to show the tip of the filthy lucre And at least defra gives its version of the non-existent non authored cosmic report which EH and OA are so proud not to publish

But the reasons for scheme given at the base of the EH propaganda you are linked to are priceless

quote:
The purpose of the Cosmic work is therefore:

? to thank the farmers for their time and contribution to the study by providing information about the sites which they own,
? to make them more aware of the significance and importance of archaeological remains on their land,
? to provide information on the options for more positive management of these features,
? to maintain the goodwill of these farmers.

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some more dash

http://hec.english-heritage.org.uk/admis...mber=3630#

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You can add this together

http://www2.defra.gov.uk/research/Projec...V=EP%3A150

with the current black hole where archaeologists are going to invent a new form of ploughing by staring at soil in a box

http://www2.defra.gov.uk/research/Projec...V=EP%3A150

its all so exciting I cant wait (dont hold your breath for tenders)

Not sure where to find EHs gravy contributions to these $projects$

What are they going to dream up after 2010...

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Anyway fellow detectorists, the weekend is coming up, if you are looking for a county which is wide open for detection I would suggest Lincolnshire. I even suggest it is your duty to see what you can find on the sites of the lost scheduled monuments. There is a good chance that 60 % of these Scheduled Ancient Monuments have totally gone and that was in less than ten years as the scheduled monuments that are referred to in the Cosmic report were only scheduled a decade age.

I don?t worry about being prosecuted. EH have ample evidence that landowners have destroyed these monuments and there has not been a single prosecution. In fact they are protecting the identities/locations of the sites. I presume that they will extend the same courtesy to you and besides there is not a single inspector in the whole of the county and the landowners do not even know that they have scheduled monuments on their land...

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I would laugh.... if it was not so horribly true!

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

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Would you go as far as to say it makes the basis of commercial archaeology economically redundant? The attrition on archaeology made by agricultural landownership is colossal compared to that by development. Why should anybody pay when others are being subsidised in the name of heritage and given maps showing them where to subsoil next. I think that in Lincolnshire the curators should pack up their bags (cash in their pensions) and every developer should laugh at their conditions as the pathetic little sop to nimbyism that they are.

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Blue makes the point that Monuments are:

quote: for life - until archaeolgical process can advance enough for a decent chance of identification and lack of damage without ruining the site.

What I was wondering was what was the procedure for gaining access to a Scheduled Ancient Monument to undertake an Archaeological Evaluation. Do you need a licence, what does it look like, who decides and what archaeologically is produced as a result of the evaluation/excavation? i.e. is there an archive and where will it be held.

You can also ask is it not beholden on an archaeologist working for an IFA RAO (and educational trust-charity) on any scheduled monument let alone 60 to produce an archive for the public-?Any answers