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 Newsletter for the Archaeologist
from Digger to Director
Issue 28 :
April 2003 |
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Open letter to IFA Council
This is the text of an
open letter sent from
The Digger to the IFA Council on the eve
of the 2003 IFA Conference in Bangor.
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 Iraq's
Baath party officials show journalists the Tikrit museum
that was hit the night before by a US missile. Photo: AFP (22/3/03) |
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Need to know what is happening in Iraq to the monumnets and
antiquities?
Go to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq website :
at : http://www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/iraq/
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Welsh Trust saved, for Now
Glamorgan
& Gwent Archaeological Trust has been saved from bankruptcy
by a last minute deal with Newport city council. The council
had been refusing to pay £31,000 that the Trust needed
to pay the salaries of its 20 staff
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Irish nightmare
Lured by the pay, the quantity
of work and the Guinness, I headed for Fishguard to work in Ireland.
I had read tales of Dickensian style workhouse horrors in The
Digger. However I wanted to experience the Emerald Isle for myself
and I jumped at the chance of a job ..... now read on.......
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Time
for archaeologists to get a fair deal on pay & conditions |
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News in brief :
What's new in archaeology
Diggers Reunited - Invisible Digger Survey
- Dave Webb's Digger Portraits
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Time Team and the 10,000 holes
The Time Team is appealing for archaeological facilitators
to help in 'Britain's biggest ever archaeological evaluation.'
Channel 4 is encouraging members of the public to dig test pits
in back gardens, private land and public spaces.
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copyright : The Digger 2003 |
