Informing the Future of the Past: Guidelines for Historic Environment Records (Second Edition)


Edited by Paul Gilman and Martin Newman


The essential set of working guidelines appropriate to all HERs, large and small, and for all staff, volunteers and students involved in managing, running, using or supporting an HER.

These guidelines have been developed to assist those who manage, work in and use Historic Environment Records (HERs). They provide an introduction to the HERs and the services that they provide, set out agreed guidelines for working practices, support the delivery of training information and advice, and provide a guide to all aspects of HER management, working practices, standards, systems and services.

This edition constitutes a major revision and expansion from the first edition to include recent developments and to cover Wales and Scotland as well as England with numerous case studies. It is available free to view on line at http://www.ifp-plus.info. The publication is the result of a collaboration between 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), the Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers UK (ALGAO UK) and the Archaeology Data Service (ADS).

This online manual for HERs is available as both standard web pages (html) and split into sections as Adobe PDF documents for you to freely download and printout for use in your HER.

http://www.ifp-plus.info/



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

https://client.hr-director-software.com/...i?jID=5052

Yes this is it.... you could slip into my comfy chair at east Lothian Council.. a gem of a county in beautiful Scotland..

The office is small but perfect.. and what a team!

there is a cake shop nearby and you work from the medieval town of Haddington.

This is a good opportunity for someone to cut their teeth of DC archaeology.... follow the link... apply and find out that I have spent my time just sipping coffee. And Biddy only beats you when you are naughty!



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

Hello Please can someone answer a few questions about the Romans? Sorry if I posted in the wrong area admin!!

I get the impression that the Romans are barbaric and slaughter other nations in a kind of genocide letting no one live and enslaving the prisoners that they caught. I am right in my theory? I know that some where caught and sent to become slaves, and for entertainment but I get the feeling that the Romans are no better than the native population

I have seen some documentaries about roman army. But, the last one I watched was about Caesar and his army must of them had hardly any amour just a spear and helmet along with a shield. Why do I see Romans dressed in full equipment with shiny armour

Was the main cause of the Roman downfall due to lack of money since the time of Nero when Rome was trying its best to rebuild or was it due to the empire been too big? I read that the Romans went out with a wimper nothing special or do we really not know?

Unitod1 said:
One of the problems of the Palaeolithic, the archaeology is normally in the ?natural? and ignored by most curators and commercial archaeology

Hi
Your right! if we conveniently ignore all the hundreds of thousands of pounds of agg levy money being spent on this period, and the interventions which take place on appropriate developments on gravel terraces, marine/estuarine areas, and the conditions placed on hardrock/gravel quarries with caves and other archaeo/palaentological natural phenomenon which involve geologist/palaeontologists as well as archaeologists.

It seems that you have one point of view that you are the only person who understands archaeology, perhaps you should pause your messianic complex sometimes. One tip, lower your caffeine levels and up your B12.

Oh by the way, must of us indulged in our hut whinging at lunch time, and got on with excavating the threatened sites the rest of the time. There is a time for everything!

Steven

For quite some time now, I have been refusing plastic bags, and doing things like carrying with my hands, or bringing a box/cotton bag...

Now today... the IFA magazine arrived -- in a plastic BAG --- can we have it sent in an envelope please. there are enough plastic bags in the world without adding more... a quarterly sent to around 2500 people... = 10000 plastic bags...

make it stop. Come on IFA (er... oh no... thats me too!)



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/index.php?o...&Itemid=26

Half way down on the right..

Who should be in charge of community archaeology?
Professional archaelogists.
Amateur groups.

Its a vote... standing at 74.5% / 25.5% just now

I would go for Pro input, as otherwise the group would be basing its knowledge on episodes of the Time Team. This of course does not mean that an amatuer group can't do the work, it may have pro's as membership....but advice in starting, excavating, reporting, recording etc is needed.



"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/tpa/news_and_events/KL/

WORLD ROCK-ART, LANDSCAPES AND CREATIVITY: RECORDING, INTERPRETING AND PROTECTING OUR GLOBAL INHERITANCE



17th #8211; 21st November and 23rd #8211;27th November 2008



Trent & Peak Archaeology and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus are pleased to launch the course #8216;World Rock-Art, Landscapes and Creativity: Recording, Interpreting and Protecting Our Global Inheritance#8217;.

Taught by a team of International Experts with decades of experience between them, this unique course offers an intensive introduction to key skills and methods in rock-art recording, analysis and interpretation.

This 5 day long course, including field-visits, lunches and refreshments and 6 nights accommodation.

We offer two session dates in November 2008:

17th #8211; 21st November and 23rd #8211; 27th November 2008

Bed and Breakfast accommodation is included in the price.

1. COURSE AIMS

Several hundred thousand rock-art sites lie scattered across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas and Pacific islands. Together these sites contain millions of images of individual or group identity, most of which were made from about 30,000 years ago. As paintings, drawings, engravings, prints, stencils and beeswax designs, rock-art has captured Western and Asian imagination since at least the late 1700s but it was only in the early 1900s that Science accepted rock-art as something legitimate to study. However, rock-art remained marginal to archaeology until the early 1980s, with it only recently emerging as an area of serious and concerted research. Today new discoveries and ideas of their origin are trumpeted in academic journals and on the front pages of newspapers and magazines on a regular basis and rigorous methods have been developed to study rock-art. In this course students are introduced to world rock-art and many of its major art bodies. Topics discussed by way of illustrated lectures include:


#8226; The origins of art
#8226; Working with indigenous peoples
#8226; Survey and recording
#8226; Rock-art dating
#8226; Conservation and management
#8226; Bridging to archaeological and ethnographic records
#8226; Documenting cultural contact and change
#8226; Group versus individual identity
#8226; Monsters and supernatural beings
#8226; Rock-art and ecology
#8226; Re-contextualising rock-art
#8226; Rock-art and mass media
#8226; The rock-art of different geographic areas
#8226; Rock-art as a wider ritual package
#8226; The new rock-art of the Ghetto
The aim of the course is to introduce students to world rock-art and the landscapes in which they are placed. Particular interest will be the way we interact with our shared palaeoart heritage; to illustrate its connection and relevance to contemporary art and culture; to introduce the protocols and ethics of studying art produced by other cultures; and to develop a range of research and presentation skills. An overriding aim to emphasise the key role creativity plays in everyone#8217;s lives, including those of the students themselves.

"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu

Hi All
English Heritage are proposing to cut the Regional Scientific Advisor posts. EH is intending to terminate eight of the Regional Science Advisor (RSA) posts and to replace them with four Territory-based posts. This would result in not only a severe reduction in capacity but also in major changes in the remit of the posts. Archaeological science advice provided on development control cases would be very seriously reduced. Likewise, engagement with regional partner agencies involved in landscape management and coastal issues, and other regional strategic projects, would drastically decline. In these circumstances it is unlikely that the science advisors would be able to continue supporting local authority curators in developing and monitoring good practice.

In my experience these post are the most useful in the regional offices. Their advice on some of my cases has been invaluable. These proposals come at a time when the demand for archaeological science advice continues to rise and is likely to accelerate even more with the implementation of the Heritage Protection Review and subsequent increased responsibilities for local authorities.

This is a really, really, bad move by EH!

I hope to see the same rallying of support for these posts as was the case for the slight reduction in non-front line PAS staff. Write or email your concerns to EH chairman Lord Bruce-Lockhart (chairman@english-heritage.org.uk).




Steven

With the new finantial year approaching this is a plee that last years distasterous delay by county council units does not happen again!!

Last year a concession allowed ex/county counicl units to not update pay imediatley and pay back-pay after an agreement had been reached.

This was not entirely successful as units (who shall remain nameless) did eventually pay the backpay to staff members who were still with the company but refused to pay any of the staff who had left before the date they decided to pay staff - in one case this was as little as a week.

There was no easy legal recourse to this as it falls within a grey area of employment law and the staff lost out. So please please can we not have this happen this year - too many of us are on short term contracts to loose out again

Hi there,

The new Illustration and Survey Special Interest Group for the IFA is now up and running. The next meeting will be on Friday 23rd May 2008 at 11am at Oxford Archaeology.

If you are interested in attending or would like to know more please contact me at ecmgardner@gmail.com.

-Liz