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Congrats Hob

FourWinds Sep 15, 2006 09:11:25

Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:

It's great that this paper is available ...

It's always good to see a paper published, especially electronically. In Ireland there are over 12000 excavation licenses issued each year, but they nearly all go to private companies who won't spend the money and resources on publishing findings properly. A very sad state of affairs! Publication within 6 months should be compulsory under the terms of the license!

tiompan Sep 15, 2006 15:06:55

Replying to FourWinds

"In Ireland there are over 12000 excavation licenses issued each year, but they nearly all go to private companies who won't spend the money and resources on publishing findings properly. "

If you can wait until Februray Richard Bradley's "Prehistoric Britain and Ireland " will have a summary of that "grey " literature .

whatisthat Sep 15, 2006 19:00:26

Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:

In Ireland there are over 12000 excavation licenses issued each year, but they nearly all go to private companies who won't spend the money and resources on publishing findings properly.

Interesting. Great to see that so much research is going on in Ireland, but what's the business model for the the private companies. [Sorry, watching too much Dragon's Den]. The excavations that I very occasionally stumble across in North Wales are university / local authority / trust based which I imagine suffer from the usual public funding problems.