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Hi Guys,
I missed out on this discussion as I was away last week.
I tend to agree with the other Chris W. on this one. The vast majority of DBAs and HIAs don’t add to the sum total of knowledge about a monument, landscape
or whatever.
Also where do does one draw the event polygon? –The proposed development site, or the search area that extends for 100s or 1000s of metres?
For this reason unless there is significant new information contained within the DBA I don’t enter it as an event.
Chris
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Subject: Re: Heritage Impact Assessments - Event Types or not?
I don't want to go round this again but these are not events, they should be in the HER as sources for the monuments they describe.
Chris Webster
Historic Environment Record
Somerset County Council
Somerset Heritage Centre
Brunel Way
Taunton
TA2 6SF
01823 347434
Online HER: www.somerset.gov.uk/her
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Subject: Heritage Impact Assessments - Event Types or not?
Dear all
Is anyone else recording good Heritage Impact Assessments as Events in their HERs? If so, what Event Type (as in the NMR Event Type Thesaurus -
http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/thesaurus.asp?thes_no=566) do you categorise them as? There isn't currently a specific term for them, and the scope notes for DBA, EIA
and Historic Area Assessment aren't really right for what we see coming in with planning applications. I know there is some scepticism about whether work like DBAs should be considered as Events (and not simply as Sources) but it makes sense from the point
of view of data structure to record them as such. I would also argue that well researched assessments do add a lot to HERs and should be flagged up as pieces of work. Is there a need for a new thesaurus term of Heritage Impact Assessment do you think?
Thanks
Sarah Orr
Historic Environment Record Officer
Culture and Environmental Protection
West Berkshire Council
Market Street
Newbury
RG14 5LD
Tel 01635 519805
Fax 01635 519811
www.westberks.gov.uk/archaeology
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