A good point... personally, I would wonder if events such as this are part of the SMR or not, and as such, question the overall purpose of an SMR (no, I am not trying to make a point here, I pose it as a real question).
Does the SMR contain a db of historical events or just discrete archaeological remains? Do histories count as archaeological remains? Well... yes and no.
My guess? At present, no... SMRs should be a record of material culture not histories per se... otherwise the structure of the things could well become unwieldy... and the searching of them impossible. After all, who gets to start putting things like World War II into the list? Would it serve any purpose of just make querying the db all the more difficult?
If, however, there were to be known historical events to be recorded, such as fires, etc. perhaps they would be best placed in another table that has a many-to-many relationship with the monument and events tables. This would allow multiple possible relationships to be created - so that a burnt deposit layer could be noted as possibly belonging to a variety of different known historical events...
Of course, I pity the poor people who have to manage this... but hey... it's a thought.
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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records on behalf of Sheena Payne
Sent: Fri 07/07/2006 11:15
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Fires!
Dear all,
Does anyone have any ideas about how to go about recording a fire on the HER? For instance, there are several recorded events where Worcester was destroyed by fire, either deliberately or otherwise, obviously leaving the potential for archaeological deposits of a burnt nature (although none so far attributed to any of these events!). We have stumbled into this area whilst thinking about the recording of various sieges, and felt that if a siege/battlefield is recorded then there must be some way of recording an event such as a fire too... Thoughts?!
Sheena Payne
Historic Environment Record Officer
26 The Butts,
Worcester
WR1 3PA
Tel: 01905 721133
Fax: 01905 722454
www.cityofworcester.gov.uk <http://www.cityofworcester.gov.uk/>
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