Whoops sorry for the double reply

Victoria Bryant MA MIFA
Historic Environment Record Manager
Worcestershire County Council Historic Environment and Archaeology Service
Woodbury Hall
University College Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ
01905 855494



-----Original Message-----
From: Liz Pearson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [FISH] e-conference -the Worcestershire environmental index


Regarding the cost of creating the basic environmental index, we designed
the system for the Worcestershire HER with an appropriate level of detail
so that someone with relatively little knowledge of environmental
archaeology could enter the data (and that includes going through backlog
reports). However, an Environmental Assistant who as been working with me
for sometime has in fact been doing this work so that we could iron out
any problems and see how long it is likely to complete. If you have
problems getting an environmental specialist to do the work in your area,
I think it is possible for someone with general archaeological knowledge
to do this using a similar set-up. The only problem I can see is that
identifying key assemblages would require specialist knowledge, and there
may be the odd outstanding queries which could be put to a specialist.

To answer Nick's question about costing this, we simply used a sum of
money that was available to get as far as we could, and then assess the
cost of completing records for all the backlog. Although it has been
suprisingly quick to get through the reports for Worcestershire (in fact I
thought surely we've done more work than that!), had we included Worcester
City, it would have taken considerably longer. That is, reasonably large
urban areas could have a dramatic effect on the workload (assuming
environmental work is being routinely carried out...as it should be).

To clarify on using the EAB, until recently most of our environmental
reports in the local Transactions were not on the EAB, but it has now been
updated, and therefore I assume it would be a good place to start for most
areas.


**********************************************************************
Privileged/Confidential information and/or Copyright Material
may be contained in this email.  The information and Material
is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only.

If you are not the addressee or the person responsible for
delivering it to the intended addressee(s), you may not copy or
deliver it to anyone else or use it in any unauthorised manner.
To do so is prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you receive this
email by mistake, advise the sender immediately by using the
reply facility in your email software.

Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily represent those of Worcestershire County
Council.

Although this email and attachments are believed to be free of any
virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT systems
into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by
Worcestershire County Council for any loss or damage arising in any
way from the receipt or use thereof.

**********************************************************************