Jason
Some Misunderstandings. I meant it was irrelevant to me which code we agree on, subject to what I suggested, not that the codes themselves were unimportant. I agree that everyone using the same codes is important. By implication I was suggesting (obviously unclearly) that if everyone else says we all use SM fine, or SAM, equally fine. My main criteria for the code would be that it does have an intuitive element IE we don't use XYZ for a Scheduled Ancient Monument but something with some intuitive connection. To Give another example, most people in the North east/Yorkshire would probably recognise that NAA refers to Northern Archaeological Associates. If you didn't, but knew NAA was a contractor you could probably have a reasonable guess at it. the same should be true of the status codes. Although they may have scope notes attached, there is a possibility that someone may end up looking at the code in isolation (don't ask me for a scenario though), and in that case the intuitive link would be useful
Hope that's clearer, but am not sure it is.
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