Dear All
I think that a certain amount of counting angels on the head of a
pin is going on here. I agree with Neil Campling that a findspot, be
it pottery from a garden or a metal detector find registered through
the PA scheme is within the data-structure an Event. As such
these Events have the same relative status as an evaluation or a
borehole or any other sort of investigation. The issue is one of
qualtity not status, different Events have variable quality. An
analogy might be made with contexts recorded during
investigations. They are all recorded as contexts, but the construct
covers a variety of sins. Whether you decide to create monuments
from the Events is pretty much determined by the critcal mass of
information; squeasing every Event into a Monument description is
probably not a good idea. The Monument/Event model is of course
flawed, but it is maleable enough to allow for the inclusion of just
about anything, with the lamentable exception of
landscapes/historic environment. But GIS can adequately take
care of that sort of metainterpretation.
Andy Hutcheson
Development Control Archaeologist/UAD Officer
Norfolk Landscape Archaeology
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