Abstract
This chapter argues that such a limited view of the public interest is inadequate as it leads to a lack of appreciation for, and interest in, archaeological archives amongst today’s public, which in turn leads to their low use, neglect, and underfunding. Archaeology has always been a fieldwork-based discipline that has generated records and finds as a result of its investigations. By the early 1980s, there was an apparent awareness of the problems created for museums by the growth in rescue archaeology, a realization of the importance of the archives held by museums and a system in place to assist with costs of curation. In the early 1990s, the virtual monopoly held by regional units to undertake archaeological work in ‘their’ areas began to be broken down by ‘competitive tendering’ or contract archaeology, whereby different units were invited to tender for a particular project.
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