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I'm doing a bit of work on this next year, there's a few surprises here.
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I'm doing a bit of work on this next year, there's a few surprises here. Look forward to hearing more about this 
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I'm doing a bit of work on this next year, there's a few surprises here. Look forward to hearing more about this 
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I have worked on shell twice too. As its a bonded site, that island is classed as outside the uk as far as I know, hence the customs being based there. I remember a ship full of people being stuck there for a few days around 5 years ago due to the fact customs would not let them in to the UK. In the end uk police were allowed onto site and they were all transported somewhere under guard.
Anyone caught there could end up in serious trouble as the whole site is bonded, its the same as breaking into an airport or customs holding site.
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I have worked on shell twice too. As its a bonded site, that island is classed as outside the uk as far as I know, hence the customs being based there. I remember a ship full of people being stuck there for a few days around 5 years ago due to the fact customs would not let them in to the UK. In the end uk police were allowed onto site and they were all transported somewhere under guard.
Anyone caught there could end up in serious trouble as the whole site is bonded, its the same as breaking into an airport or customs holding site.
Good! Should discourage metal detectors and the like! It's a special site this, it's significance has gone hidden for a while. Hopefully the next few years will change this.
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Good! Should discourage metal detectors and the like! It's a special site this, it's significance has gone hidden for a while. Hopefully the next few years will change this.
Conversely, the professionals should pull their fingers out and get sites like this surveyed before nature, industry and vandals wreck the places.
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it's not about pulling fingers out, it's about funding and English Heritage in particular has just has its already small budget destroyed.
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When you consider the number of Universities running courses and the number of theses produced. You'd think they'd be short of new sites to do. Not really having a pop - just frustrated at the speed things happen at.
How's life anyway, you were run off your feet last year.
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the trouble is, getting a degree in archaeology doesn't necessarily mean you have the skills to survey a site. I know what you mean though, I am waiting for a particular excavation report from a site dug in the 1980s!
Still up the wall but good thanks!
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My god, that's bad, is this a genuine delay or are people holding back information so that they can do other research before others using the information that's been gleaned?
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no, it's just a massively time-consuming job. If you excavate a site, then you usually get separate reports from pottery experts, finds specialists, osteo data, etc. Then you have to wait for carbon dating, pollen analysis and the like. A site report could also stop if something more pressing comes along, and it can very quickly end up delayed for years.
Budgets are dire, so unfortunately it's a case of doing it as and when.
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