One of my particular areas of concern has been regarding underg
One of my particular areas of concern has been regarding underground sites, for instance where shaft plugging schemes has been involved. Much information has been published in for instance group newsletters, which of course are of limited circulation in comparison to say British Mining. However indexes to these are in many cases available on the web, & some years ago I provided copies of everything I had come across, & of all surveys I was aware of (several hundreds) to the then CAU. Much of this came as a result of a national appeal for such information, which was responded to by various groups including caving clubs from a long way away. However even though CAU therefore had this information, they don't seem to have made any use of it.
Where they have been asked to report on schemes involving for instance shaft plugging, they must be aware that much of the archaeology is underground (Often the most significant) & as in general they would be unable to access this themselves I really would have hoped they would have made more effort to get this information from those who were able to provide it. There are one or two Cornwall archaeologists however who have made efforts to obtain this information and have included it in their reports.
I totally agree with Rick regarding the lack of published material we produce. I am probably as much to blame as anyone, having been researching many sites in the Tamar Valley & other areas (West Cornwall) for nearly thirty years, & so far having only published a very small amount of it. Unfortunatey keep getting sidetracked into other areas.
Alasdair Neill.
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