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.
Sadly my memory is atrocious and I only really remembered the shockingly large figure at the end :)
