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Hi Folks and Happy New Decade to you all.

 

I am starting to work out the niceties of accessioning our NRHE records, now the data is available, and have a query. Whilst it is related to the NRHE to HER project, its (possibly) more generally about OS recording, so thought I would post here in case anyone knows about that.

 

Anyway, in trying to make sense of our records so I can update them correctly, I have come across a reference to a Yellow Card (first sports pun gets sent off….)

 

It is in the context of our own card files, which appear to be based on OS information and in one example the card reads

 

“NY83SE3 Foundations, found by OS local Correspondent” and an NGR.

 

But enigmatically at the top of the card it also says “Info from Yellow Card” so I was wondering – was the Yellow Card part of the OS reporting process does anyone know? Perhaps a preliminary card before it was accepted into the system?

 

As described, this doesn’t match with anything on the Pastscape record (http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=16159 ), so I’m assuming that means that the info did not make it onto the OS card (or possibly ever had one).

 

To further confuse matters, the source for the Pastscape record (for which I also read – the OS Card) is given as the Archaeology in the North Gazeteer (ANG) , but according to the ANG, the site came from the OS record cards.

 

So we have a nice loop where the ANG is based on the OS card, but as transcribed into the NMR, the OS card seems to be based on the ANG…(which leads to another possibility that the Yellow Card is related to the Archaeology in the North Project, but I have no way of checking that – as who knows where that archive went…?)

 

Anyway, might just be a Durham foible, with the explanation lost in the mists of time, but if anyone knows more about Yellow Cards, or the Archaeology in the North Project (which included Cumbria, Northumberland, and Tyne and Wear) which might shed light on this, please let me know

 

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best wishes

 

Nick Boldrini

Historic Environment Record Officer

Archaeology Section

Heritage, Landscapes and Design Team

Environmental Services

Regeneration and Local Services

Durham County Council

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