Following Neil's comment on Friday, I got access through a university
library. From a quick read, the bit to focus on is the second page of
`conc.html'.
I understand they were trying to explain a decay process which had
previously caused 5% shrinkage of the 4 m thick deposits here during the
(unspecified?) lifetime of one of the previous buildings, which was maybe a
Curry's store facing Parliament Street in York. They seem to say that three
years monitoring of the Marks and Spencer development was not sufficiently
long to demonstrate any consistent change of ground conditions which might
explain this process.
A more accessible version of the planning background to this project is on
page 53 of the recently published first PARIS conference monograph (J Oxley
`Planning and the conservation of archaeological deposits' in M Corfield et
al Preserving archaeological remains in situ MoLAS & Bradford ?2001).
The best bit of the new paper is in the conclusions (conc.html, page 2) with
some sound recommendations like:
* install your monitoring equipment in time to get some `settled' data
before any construction, for control purposes;
* put it in places where you can monitor remotely throughout
construction and indefinitely afterwards;
* (more fundamentally) they want a nationally-funded research
programme including in vitro and digital modelling of the decay process.
For PPG 16 the final para of conc.html is relevant, basically below 2 m
depth the deposit is stable, above that ground conditions vary seasonally,
but on present evidence they seem not to be claiming a direct causal link
between these `dynamic characteristics' and the previously observed
shrinkage.
Please come back with further questions. - Brian
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> > "Preservation of Urban Archaeological Deposits: monitoring and
> > characterisation of archaeological deposits at Marks & Spencer, 44-45
> > Parliament Street, York" by Mat Davis, Allan Hall, Harry Kenward and
> > John
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> > http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/oxley_index.html
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> > This article discusses results of a deposit monitoring project carried
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> > over 4 years in the centre of the City of York. The article discusses
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> > character of the archaeological deposits and the burial environment
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> > place in some of the highly organic archaeological deposits. Prompted by
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> > In conclusion, the authors challenge the concept of 'preservation in
> > situ'. Given that it is based on the assumption that buried
> > archaeological deposits stay in the same state of preservation if they
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