> From: Neil Campling <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH)"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:21:20 +0000
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Data Practice Standards
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We don't even think about the data that are destroyed day-in,
> day-out by the plough and other development.
Well, some of us do -- and curse....
Just because we cannot know now what some future
> researcher might want is not an argument for total collection; it is an
> argument for explict selection and/or recorded disposal !
I rather thought I was arguing for the latter -- apologies if I put it
badly. As I understand it, some archaeologists shy away from digging large
sites because they don't have the money for post-ex and because there is
nowhere to store the enormous quantities of finds expected. The latter could
at least be addressed if we agreed to return recorded finds to a suitable
interment at their original site or to another recorded location.
Yours ever
Diana C. Briscoe
Archive of Anglo-Saxon Pottery Stamps
124 Cholmley Gardens
Fortune Green Road
London NW6 1AA
Tel: +44(0)20 77946300
Fax: +44(0)20 74311612
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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