14th December 2010, 02:26 PM
And given the clear danger implicit in any form of centralised national management of health, welfare, culture etc A national HER - rather than county-based - is never going to happen; indeed it strikes me that a national HER would be far more useful in addition to being cheaper, with the bonus of search areas extending over county boundaries (although, apart from cricket what will they serve by 2012?), the integration of historic maps, an online searchable database of site records, finds and the option of searching for groups of finds/activities across the country
and EH were even test-running IntraSys at Birdoswald which in Sweden does all that and more... but i am dreaming - back to the volunteers who'll pop in whenever they have a spare moment from volunteering elsewhere, if they're not queueing for soup, sure they'll sort it all out, which given that a number will have been archaeologists should make us all sleep easier in our beds at night
and EH were even test-running IntraSys at Birdoswald which in Sweden does all that and more... but i am dreaming - back to the volunteers who'll pop in whenever they have a spare moment from volunteering elsewhere, if they're not queueing for soup, sure they'll sort it all out, which given that a number will have been archaeologists should make us all sleep easier in our beds at night
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