read it too....
read it too....
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seen it
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seen it
Jackie
seen it.
i know it might have howls of derision but doesn't that chap on Time team dive? Is it worth sounding him out on the subject?
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Read it and agree wholeheartedly.
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Yes Phil Harding dives and he is a project manager at Wessex Archaeology, Wessex archaeology also undertake a lot of commercial underwater archaeology themselves (though Harding is not involved in that side of things), also unless im mistaken they have the biggest underwater unit in the UK. Although i think most of their work is commisioned by the agregates industry due to gravel extraction and port authorities due to dredging and widening of channels.
Your right about the derision, it may raise the profile of archaeology and bring it to the public eye, but i cant watch it as i find it so annoying as its so different from what really happens. I once worked on an excavation on the intertidal zone over at Goldcliffe in South Wales (it was the site that had prehistoric footprints preserved in the estuarine deposits). Time Team came along to do there three day thing and then went away while the rest of us spent the next couple of weeks not only doing our own work but finishing of their stuff as well.
Just remembered that there is a member of YD Nigel Nayling who is a maritime archaeologist and also as a dendrochronologist, he used to do a bit of work for Wreck Detectives. Nigel has done alot of work on very early maritime sites and wooden wrecks and may be a better person to sound out.
Last edited by Rich Payne; 21-01-09 at 09:25 AM.
read it.exellent post.
Is this one of those occassions where a on line petition to number 10 may actually be worth doing? It is mad and wants bringing into the spot light.
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Seen it and totally agree.