Dear Sarah,
I've edited your text to produce the following. Please let me know if
its OK.
"The West Berkshire SMR serves the new unitary authority based at
Newbury and covers the rural western half of the historic county of
Berkshire. The SMR includes all known archaeological monuments that are
earlier than the 17th century, many Listed Buildings and all current
Buildings at Risk, Scheduled Monuments, Historic Parks and Gardens,
Registered Battlefields, some industrial archaeology (including canals)
and a selection of modern defence sites. The most recent monuments
included in the SMR are the Cold War missile silos at Greenham Common.
In future the SMR aims to include comprehensive Listed Building
information, data from the Defence of Britain data project, Portable
Antiquities and historic hedgerows.
The SMR holds an exegesis V2 database of approximately 20,000 records,
linked to ArcView GIS; paper files of archaeological information
arranged by parish (references from journals, unpublished excavation/
survey reports, scheduling information, etc); some aerial photographs;
modern maps with air photographic transcriptions overlays; some historic
maps and photographs of monuments."
In answer to your other question, yes I think that I will be emailing a
copy of the details round to people before adding them to the on-line
register.
with best wishes,
Kate
Sarah Orr wrote:
>
> Dear Kate
>
> West Berkshire SMR:
>
> 1. Land area - boundary of West Berkshire Unitary Authority (in effect western half of county of Berkshire, post 1974 changes)
> 2. Subject content - Currently the West Berkshire SMR includes all known archaeological monuments that are pre 17th century, many Listed Buildings (+ all current Buildings at Risk), Scheduled Monuments, all Historic Parks and Gardens, all Registered Battlefields, some industrial archaeology (including canals) and a selection of modern defence sites (with the usual proviso about our backlog). Our latest monuments would be the Cold War missile silos at Greenham Common (1980s). We are aiming for a more systematic collecting policy - we hope to get comprehensive Listed Building information added, plus the Defence of Britain data in the next 6 months or so. No Portable Antiquities input as yet, or historic hedgerows - but again we would like to add these.
> 3. Format - exegesis V2 database linked to ArcView GIS (council system); paper files of archaeological information arranged by parish (references from journals, unpublished excavation/ survey reports, scheduling information, etc); aerial photographs (not very extensive collection); modern maps with AP transcriptions overlays (not completely upto date); historic maps (patchy coverage for area); photographs of monuments (prints, slides and newly acquired digital photos which we are linking to exegesis).
>
> Presumably you will edit this to put the information on the register of HEIRs - will you be copying us with your entries before you put them on-line?
>
> Sarah Orr
> SMR Officer
>
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