Rescue News 69

Reports on the results of an experiment to test the efficacy of excavation techniques. The experiment was undertaken at the site of a medieval timber-framed building at Old Abbey Farm, Cheshire (see also 95/1311).

Reports that the University of Birmingham has been awarded funding from British Telecommunications (BT) to develop a multi-media package on Roman Wroxeter (Shropshire).

Discusses an impending crisis for the storage and conservation of archaeological finds archives, presaged by the Museum of London's decision to suspend acceptance of finds from new fieldwork in the capital. The importance for research of common documentation standards is highlighted. A possible way forward is proposed in the development of regional centres that also serve to disseminate archaeological community (on the lines of York Archaeological Resource Centre).

Discusses the results of a 1995 survey which suggested that it is the implementation of planning policy, rather than the policy itself, that is weak in Wales.

News of a financial crisis threatening the on-going investigations at the BA site near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. There is an appeal for donations.

Suggests that increasing specialisation in archaeology (as in wider society) is one factor that gives rise to the individual and institutional vandalism that damages our environment.

The first Essex site to be recorded under new planning guidelines (PPG 15) is an outstanding example of the `International Style' of the 1930s.