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archaeological monitoring

  • 25-01-2007 12:25am
    #1
    pog it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭


    Hi there:
    A friend of mine is building a house and has to get an archaeologist to monitor the area for archaeology as part of the planning conditions before he can proceed with it. I've done the B.A in archaeology and have some experience in development led archaeology and he's asked me if I can do it for him. The only trouble is I'm really not sure if I can do this. I don't have a licence to direct excavations yet, but as far as we know there are no sites there and maybe won't be when we take off the topsoil and do some testing.
    There are three conditions laid out re. the archaeology by the council:

    1. suitably qualified archaeologist to be employed
    2. 'the archaeologist shall carry out any relevant documentary research and inspect the site. Test trenches may be excavated at locations chosen by the archaeologist (licenced under the National Monuments Acts 1930-194), having consulted the site drawings.

    It's really the second part that I'm not wholly sure about, as in can I ask for a licence to do the test trenching or would it be that I would have to be licensable???

    Would appreciate any help at all, thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    It looks like you need a licence and its likely a condition of that licence is that you have insurance. But check with the National Museum, OPW, etc.

    Do you work for an archaeological firm?


  • #3
    abccormac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭abccormac


    You definitely need to be licensable yourself. You need a directors licence to apply for the licence to do the testing.

    Why do you think there's no archaeology there? Councils don't normally add archaeological conditions to planning applications unless you're either within the old medieval area of a town or quite close to a known site in a rural area.


  • #4
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    You do need a licence, no two ways. Your friend should contact either a firm of consultitve archaeologists or the local council to see if they have a list of people qualified.


  • #5
    pog it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    Thanks all. You confirmed what I was thinking and I wouldn't have dreamed of taking it on before I had found out for sure. I've passed on the details of one of the archaeological companies to them. And I double checked with Department of Environment and Heritage, who of course said you would have to be licensable to request a licence to monitor there.


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