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!!!Informing the Future of the Past: Guidelines for Historic Environment Records (second edition)
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Published by English Heritage at the National Monuments Record Centre, Kemble, Drive, Swindon, SN2 2GZ.
Published by English Heritage, The Engine House, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon, SN2 2EH.
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Figures 11, 12, 13, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 42, 44, 45, 48, 49 , 50 , 51, 52, 55, 56, 57,58, 59 62, 66, 67, 68 & 69 are based on OS maps with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office ©Crown copyright. All Rights reserved. Figures 32, 33 & 34 are based on British Geological Survey (BGS) data by Worcestershire County Council, ''BGS Digital License 2001/125. 2007''. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. OS licence numbers for each organisation basing a figure on an OS map are given in the caption for the image.
Figures 11, 12, 13, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 42, 44, 45, 48, 49 , 50 , 51, 52, 55, 56, 57,58, 59 62, 66, 67, 68 & 69 are based on OS maps with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of Her Majesty's Stationary Office ©Crown copyright. All Rights reserved. Figures 32, 33 & 34 are based on British Geological Survey (BGS) data by Worcestershire County Council, ''BGS Digital License 2001/125. 2007''. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. OS licence numbers for each organisation basing a figure on an OS map are given in the caption for the image.
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English Heritage is the Government’s Statutory adviser on all aspects of the historic environment. The National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage.
English Heritage is the Government's Statutory adviser on all aspects of the historic environment. The National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage.
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Front cover designed by Agnes Bell. Website designed by Bruce Howard.
Front cover designed by Agnes Bell. Website designed by Bruce Howard.
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!!List of Figures
|__Figure no.__|__Caption__
|__Section A__|
|1|The HER 'wheel' drives and is powered by an integrated approach to conservation and understanding of the historic environment
|2|Designated wreck sites (February 2005)
|3|HERs and other records
|__Section B__|
|4|Information management cycle
|5|The logo for the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage
|6|The logo of MIDAS, the national data standard for the content of historic environment records.
|7|The logo for the INSCRIPTION terminology standard web pages
|8|A sample screenshot from the INSCRIPTION web page
|9|The FISH web site www.fish-forum.info is the starting point for finding out about data standards for the historic environment
|__Section C__|
|10|The event-monument-source data model
|11|Throckmorton known archaeological sites prior to the 2001 Foot and Mouth epidemic
|12|Placename evidence from 1774 Throckmorton Enclosure map
|13|Throckmorton events undertaken as part of Foot and Mouth mitigation
|14|Relationships between monument records.
|15|The monument record for the chapter house at Waltham Abbey displayed in exeGesIS SDM Ltd's SMR software.
|16|Indexing monument records using the Thesaurus of Monument Types and other terminology lists in exeGesiS SDM Ltd's SMR software.
|17|Creating links between a monument record and associated people and events in exeGesIS SDM Ltd's SMR software.
|18|A report showing a monument record in the Essex Heritage Conservation Record.
|19|Example of a project summary page from the OASIS form
|20|How an event may be recorded in an HER database
|21|A typical source recorded in exeGesIS SDM Ltd’s HBSMR software
|22|Consultation and conservation advice
|23|A typical consultation record from the North Yorkshire County Council HER showing the details tab.
|24|A typical consultation record from the North Yorkshire County Council HER showing the consultation Stages tab and the link to the related event record.
|25|Monument management process
|26|Successive monument monitoring reports as recorded in the National Trust SMR
|__Section D__|
|27|ADS web page – Excavation Index
|28|WoSAS Events 1: An example of an archaeological evaluation specified to trench level, derived from contractor supplied data.
|29|WoSAS Events 2: The event record for the heart of medieval Glasgow showing numerous events as points and polygons.
|30|Elmley Castle Tithe map displaying apportionment details for land use
|31|3D historic reconstruction of Elmley Castle using the digital tithe map
|32|Date ranges of Worcestershire's Quaternary geology
|33|Type sites selected for the Worcestershire Palaeolithic HER
|34|HER data overlain on terrace deposits displayed by period
|35|Maes Mochnant Standing Stone, Powys.
|36|NoSAS members surveying at Loch Hourn
|37|Clyne Heritage Society members working at an eroding structure on the beach at Brora, Sutherland.
|38|Unst Heritage Society surveying an eroding prehistoric mound in Shetland
|__Section E__|
|39|Using three dimensional modelling in GIS to examine sites in their landscape setting
|40|Representing the location of a heritage object within a 'virtual space'.
|41|Representing the approximate location of a heritage object as a fuzzy boundary.
|42|A GIS generated map showing Bronze Age barrows over Landscape Types and rivers in Hampshire
|43|Relationships between HER text databases and GIS in text
|44|A GIS layer showing the use of polygons to show the extent of the early 19th-century defences at Chelmsford.
|45|Great Chesterford scheduled area
|46|Examples of layers in a GIS
|47|A new GIS layer: archaeological sites on arable land
|48|The first HLC in England – carried out in Cornwall
|49|A selected area of the HLC for Cornwall
|50|HLAMAP – HLA as applied in Scotland (from the RCAHMS website).
|51|A screen capture from GIS - Illustrating the more detailed HLC study of field boundaries in an area just north of Harlow, which is one of the mineral study areas in Hertfordshire. The thick grey lines represent modern OS mapping of surviving boundaries, whereas the various superimposed coloured lines reflect different periods of historic mapping, such as Estate, Tithe and Enclosure maps. This illustrates the degree of boundary loss and change through the past two centuries. This will enable dating of surviving field boundaries or sections thereof for future land management.
|52|Urban HLC as applied in St Austell Cornwall
|53|A screen capture of the HBSMR Help manual – this approach embeds the HLC within the HER.
|54|Entry Level Scheme for CAP reforms
|55|HLC Sensitivity Zones Map from the LCS-M11 Study
|56|Illustrating some of the outputs from the MKSM study
|57|HLA overlay showing a Designed Landscape.
|58|SMR overlay showing same Designed Landscape as an archaeological site.
|__Section F__|
|59|The distribution of certain categories of HER information is often more readily understood when seen in the context of ancient topography, such as this interpretative map of part of the Neolithic fenland environment.
|60|Some of the publicity material produced for the HER outreach Programme.
|61|Professor Mick Aston, Somerset’s first County Archaeologist, launching the website at the County Museum, Taunton Castle on 30th September 2003.
|62|An example of the map page of the website, showing Bronze Age barrows in the parish of Priddy, Somerset.
|63|One of the one day drop in exhibition/demonstrations of the online Historic Environment Record
|64|Rachel Shaw, Education Consultant giving a talk on using the HER website to local school children, many of whom were far more adept at picking it up than most of the adults.
|65|Taking a local school on an historic walk around their village based on HER information. This is the starting point of a planned local studies project for next term.
|66|Sample NMRS record viewed through CANMORE
|67|Site selection using a web-GIS browser: the RCAHMS CANMAP
|68|Completed search on PASTMAP with map report on selected records.
|69|Example Record Page from Somerset HER.
!!!Acknowledgements
This desk manual is the result of a partnership between the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), English Heritage, Historic Scotland, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) and the Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers (ALGAO UK). The desk-manual project was managed by Bruce Howard, Martin Newman (as co-editor), and Matthew Stiff of English Heritage. Paul Gilman of Essex County Council acted as co-editor and ALGAO consultant, supported by Alison Bennett, and especially Caroline Ingle of Essex County Council who did most of the detailed editorial work, checking of web addresses, references and so forth. Special thanks are also due to Nick Davis, Rod Fitzgerald, Phil Garner and Lucy Richardson from the National Monuments Record for proof reading. The project steering committee was chaired by Dave Barrett (Derbyshire County Council), and its membership included Chris Martin (Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust), Rebecca Jones (RCAHMS), Catherine Hardman (ADS), Stuart Jeffrey (ADS), Peter McKeague (RCAHMS), Carol Swanson (West of Scotland Archaeology Service) and David Thomas (RCAHMW).
The first version of this manual was edited by Kate Fernie and Paul Gilman, with the following contributors: Kenneth Aitchison (Institute of Field Archaeologists), Tony Austin, Damian Robinson and William Kilbride (Archaeology Data Service), Alison Bennett and Caroline Ingle (Essex County Council), Rob Bourn (Babtie Group), Duncan Brown, Phil Carlisle, Kate Fernie, Bob Hook, Neil Lang, Gillian Sheldrick, Robin Taylor and Laurel Tilbury (English Heritage), Tony Hurley and Alison Tinniswood (Hertfordshire County Council), Emma Jones (Warwickshire County Council), Peter Rowe (Tees Archaeology) and Nigel Pratt (then of the National Trust). For the second edition, the contributors were: Ruth Atkinson (Humber Archaeology Partnership), Talya Bagwell (Somerset County Council), Kim Biddulph (Buckinghamshire County Council), Victoria Bryant, Neil Lockett and Deborah Overton, (Worcestershire County Council), Kieran Byrne, Edmund Lee (English Heritage), Quinton Carroll (Cambridgeshire County Council), Jill Collens (Cheshire County Council), Paul Cuming (Kent County Council), Tom Dawson (University of St Andrews), Lynn Dyson-Bruce (Essex County Council), Gail Falkingham (North Yorkshire County Council), Isobel Holroyd (British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography), Susan Lisk (Oxfordshire County Council), Bruce Mann (Aberdeenshire Council), Dorothy M. Maxwell (Highland Council), Robert Mowat (RCHAMS), Ben Robinson (Peterborough City Council), Jeff Spencer (Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust), David Wheatley (University of Southampton).
IFP 2 was peer reviewed by Louise Austin (Cambria Archaeology (Dyfed Archaeological Trust Ltd.)), Kate Geary (Institute of Field Archaeologists), Bruce Mann (Aberdeenshire Council), Sarah Poppy (Cambridgeshire County Council), Hedley Swain (Museum of London), Nigel Pratt (Hampshire County Council), and Professor Ian Ralston (University of Edinburgh). The steering committee wishes to extend its thanks to the peer reviewers and to all those who have been involved the project. The committee commends this desk manual to professional staff working in local authorities, students, volunteers, and project staff.
Dave Barrett, Derbyshire County Council, Chair of the IFP2 Steering Committee.
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