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Evergreen Dazed wrote: juamei wrote: Tbh I think the lack of excavations is directly caused by lack of funding... John Barnatt gave a ballpark estimate of £100k to completely excavate a barrow in the peaks. Apart from the show sites, no-one seems to be prepared to give that sort of money. By the power of greyskull, that is a lot of money! I wonder how, exactly, a figure like that is broken down? You would think (or it might be my naivety) that students of archaeology might be willing to contribute their time to excavate/produce reports for v little money, if a site was of particular interest. I would guess getting radiocarbon dates may be an expensive business. From the top of my head that was with "free" diggers (students + volunteers) & 1 qualified archeo salary. Carbon dates cost hundreds a pop. Other sciencey tests plus paying experts costs thousands eg snails, pollen, luminosity etc etc. Sadly my memory is atrocious and I only really remembered the shockingly large figure at the end :) Reply | with quote |  3rd December 2012ce 16:11 In reply to: Re: art and science (Evergreen Dazed) |
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