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Welcome toEnglish Heritage's
Archaeology Division
TheArchaeology Division is part of English Heritage's
Conservation Department and provides archaeological expertise and advice
to the organisation. The Division consists of three parts: The Ancient
Monuments Laboratory which provides advice and research on archaeological
science and the conservation of archaeology and collections;the Central
Archaeology Service which advises and monitors all aspects of archaeology
as well as initiating archaeological projects of national importance; and
the Monuments Protection Programme which reviews England's archaeological
resource to determine the most appropriate ways of managing it for the
future.
If you are looking for more general information about the activities
of English Heritage, you may also wish to visit our main
corporate website.
What's New
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A Model for the Description of Archaeological Archives:
This document describes the model used by the Centre for Archaeology to
describe its archaeological archives and is being disseminated, with a
request for comment, in order to stimulate discussion on this important
topic.
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Whitby Abbey Headland Project (WAHP)
- Southern Anglian Enclosure (SAE) The first season of excavation at
Whitby Abbey on the area of the Southern Anglian Enclosure has now been
completed. General information about Whitby Abbey and the excavations -
including an on-line version of the Research Project Design - can
be accessed from this link.
Further updates and news will be added as the excavations progress.
Update 3: August
1999 - Now Available
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Timber structure at Holme-next-the-Sea,
Norfolk. After recording work has been carried out, the timber structure
popularly known as "Seahenge" is due to be lifted by archaeologists
in Norfolk, beginning at around Midday on 15/06/1999. A Webcam will be
set up to record the operation. Subject to local tides and other logistical
factors, it is hoped to provide, via this link, a series of "live" images
that update approximately every minute. Further information about the earlier
stages of the Holme excavation project, funded by Archaeology Commissions,
is also available from the project summary pages at: Project
Summary 1998/99- A timber structure at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
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Archaeology Commissions - Project
Summaries. 1999 project summaries now available. Background
information and a summary of work carried out on a number of projects funded
through the Archaeology Commissions programme. Links to new projects will
be added to the list as WWW summaries become available.
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Avebury WHS
The New Avebury WHS Management Plan is Now Available on-line.
English Heritage, as the lead body developing Management Plans for World
Heritage Sitesin England, funded a collaborative project which developed
the Management Plan for Avebury between September 1996 and August 1998.
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Environmental Archaeological Bibliography. This bibliography
is now on-line, see the entry below under Periodically Updated Resources.
Publications and Consultation Documents
Periodically Updated Resources
Presentations of Archaeology Division Work
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Whitby Abbey Headland Project (WAHP)
- Southern Anglian Enclosure (SAE) The first season of excavation at
Whitby Abbey on the area of the Southern Anglian Enclosure has now started.
General information about Whitby Abbey and the excavations - including
an on-line version of the Research Project Design - can be accessed
from this link. Further updates and news will be added as the excavations
progress.
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World Heritage Sites and GIS: An introduction
to the use by the CentralArchaeology Service of Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) in themanagement of World Heritage Sites (WHS).
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Virtual
Stonehenge. The 3D visualisation of Stonehenge has been improved. Travel
through virtual time and walk through the Stonehenge landscape at different
periods during its existence. Brought to you by English Heritage in partnership
with Intel and Superscape Virtual Reality Solutions. You need Netscape
2.0 or greater running on a PC but Superscape provide the free plug-in
VR viewer necessary to view the virtual world.
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Archaeometry and Stonehenge. AML involvement
in the Stonehenge 20th Century Excavations Project.
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English Heritage Scientists Discover
Buried Prehistoric Henge. The Archaeometry Branch's recent discovery
of one of the largest and most elaborate prehistoric ceremonial sites ever
found in Britain, at Stanton Drew Stone Circle, Somerset. Evidencesuggesting
timber circles and an enormous ditch or henge, at least as old and of comparable
significance to Stonehenge, was revealed during a geophysical surveyusing
instruments to detect buried archaeological remains without disturbing
the ground around them.
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The Ancient Monuments Laboratory Bar Code Location Recording
System A description of our object location system with pictures (Contains
about 47Kb of inline images).
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AML Geophysics and the Wroxeter Hinterlands Project.
See preliminary results of our contribution to this project. NB this page
contains a 25Kb inline image.
Miscellaneous
Links to other sites