Maybe, but if so it only came to my attn today and I dont recall seeing it on this email group before, but I could be wrong. Re. Dr Chitty is, if I recall her details correctly: Dr Gill Chitty Head of Conservation Council for British Archaeology St Mary's House, 66 Bootham, York Y030 7BZ. Tel: 01904 521243 Fax: 01904 671384 I am sure she could furnish more info. All the best. --- On Wed, 9/6/10, Martin Snow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Martin Snow <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Building Materials and Holy Wells To: [log in to unmask] Date: Wednesday, 9 June, 2010, 9:45 Very laudable, but I had thought this was already being done by EH - for quite some time? Who is Dr Gill Chitty? where is she (he) head of conservation - no Institution/body is mentioned other than EH. Tarnia has only an anonymous email. I would be very wary of this and would not want my colleagues hard won data to go - who knows where? Cautiously - Martin Snow From: n/a Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:47 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Building Materials and Holy Wells An interesting opportunity to bring together the academic world and Wells and Spas research to possibly tackle one of the main questions (as I see it) about holy wells, i.e. construction date, landed in my inbox today. Anyway, email as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, English Heritage is carrying out an in-depth study into the identification and source/supply problems with indigenous building stones in England. The study comprises the identification of building stone(s), representative stone built buildings, villages and other structures, and the identification of their historic sources on a county by county basis. We are looking for help from the local and regional heritage and conservation bodies to provide any digital data held - possibly in shape file format - that can be made freely available to help with the collation of county data. This could include: Listed Building data - Grid Refs, building materials etc ; any known research on building stones and quarries; any information on local building lists. If you are able to assist please contact Tarnia McAlester, Project Manager - Strategic Stone Study [log in to unmask] 01746 769409 07717 711382 Dr Gill Chitty, Head of Conservation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surely this is a good project to contribute HW data to?