To all my friends and colleagues:
I retire today, at very short notice but many months after I had first
requested it.
An advertisement for a new County Archaeologist should appear shortly and I
hope that you will all apply.
Until the appointment is made, the Archaeology Service will be in the safe
hands of my trusted colleagues Frank Basford and Rebecca Loader, with
Rebecca doing most of the SMR work. I shall look in from time to time on a
voluntary basis to offer advice and to excavate and interpret the mountain
of paperwork in my office.
I thank you for your friendship and support over the past 14 years - I have
known some of you for considerably longer than that.
I leave you with this thought:
Fancy record systems, meetings, discussion papers and high tech kit are all
very important, but our most valuable resource, and the one which we are
here to protect, is The Past. Most of it still lies within the landscape
unrecognised and unrecorded. Go to it. Get out there and find it while it
is still there.
I wish you all every success.
David Motkin
County Archaeology and Historic Environment Service
Isle of Wight Council
Archaeological Centre
61 Clatterford Road
Newport
Isle of Wight PO30 1NZ
UK
Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1983 823810
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