When I get the chance, I nag Heritage Victoria about putting out a guide to artefacts based on the mterial lodged under their bond system. I have always felt this would be more useful than the bottle (and other) collectors guides.

there seems to be a slowly growing acceptance of adding fairly basis analysis on to the end of the salvage escavation projects, so somethig like dveloper funded artefact research seems the next logical step. 

I also thought Susan Lawrence had a couple of students doing somethig of this sort.

Gary V

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From:   Iain Stuart [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tue 9/28/2004 4:20 PM
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Subject:        The finds problem

Following on from the points made be others, I was wondering what use the collections of artefacts are if nobody is researching them.

Alisdair Brooks is the only dedicated artefact researcher I know of in Australia (although I had a brick collection that I was researching once).

yours

Iain Stuart

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