Re: Archaeologists are the real experts - aren't they?

NeilJackman_at_gmail.com
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: 12 Dec 2004 07:45:35 -0800

I agree with what Martyn Harrison says about the need to preserve
contexts, however the last bit about collectors not being able to do
anything good for the science of archaeology is going too far, they
have already proved their worth especially in battlefield archaeology
(BBC2s Two Men in a Trench archaeology series used detectorists quite
often), and in the field I work (pre-construction archaeology) having
detectorists do the proposed construction route alongside
archaeologists would be great, its a pity that most archaeology
companies in Eire are a bit too tight fisted to consider them.
Theres a middle ground we can both dig.

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