The Northamptonshire National Mapping Programme
Northamptonshire County Council, 2003. (updated 2008) https://doi.org/10.5284/1000366. How to cite using this DOI
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Overview of Project Management Report
The first section introduces the aim of the English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (NMP) and outlines the historic background that led to the selection of Northampton as one of the first externally-operated projects. It goes on to provide details of the Northamptonshire NMP Project's coverage and a background to the county's geology, soils, topography and drainage and the nature and distribution of modern settlement, industry, woodland and agricultural land use.
The second section briefly summarises previous work in the county on the recording and transcription of archaeology from aerial photographs.
The scope of the survey, in terms of the types of archaeological features recorded, accords with the general aims and objectives of all National Mapping Programme projects. These are outlined in the third section, together with guidance on the treatment of recording issues that were specific to this project.
The following section details the air photograph collections consulted for the project and comments on their contents. The details of actual cover searches and loans of material provided by the National Monuments Record are provided in the appendices.
The fifth section outlines the innovative methodology evolved by Northamptonshire County Council for this project. This included from the start accurate rectification using AERIAL software and integration of rectified plots into the NCC GIS. A detailed step-by-step account of the methodology, together with the mapping conventions used, are provided in the appendices. The appendices also contain details of the tasks undertaken after mapping was complete to ensure the standards and consistency of the data.
Section six outlines the management structure and assesses the productivity of the team's work over the lifetime of the project. Details of authorship and the completion data for each stage of mapping are provided in the appendices.
The next section describes in detail the various data that were produced during the course of interpretation and mapping and that now constitute the project's archives. It explains the role of each set of data within the process of interpretation and mapping, their significance to the general user and records any comments on their future development. This section also briefly summarises the results of the project.
The final two sections outline the plans for the dissemination and archiving of the project data.
