This is the final session in the Urban Archaeology lifelong learning module. This session looked at different forms of writing for archaeology. Including blogging or maintaining wikis with the Council of British Archaeology for community-based fieldwork projects, and publishing archaeological reports. The session also covered ideas for where to go next, including information on where to volunteer in archaeology, and where to find jobs in the sector.

1. This Session
• Writing for Archaeology
• Ways to get involved in Archaeology
• Keeping up to date with Archaeology
• Class Observation
• Feedback Forms
• Urban Archaeology Guides

2. Writing for Archaeology
Urban Archaeology
Session 12

3. Archaeology for All
• We have looked at many areas of archaeology
and many techniques.
• Sharing your discoveries through publication is
also big part of archaeology.

4. Why not share your research?

5. Publish Online
• Not as scary as it sounds!
• You can submit your research findings to
organisations that will do the technical work
for you.

6. Depositing Data
• Archaeological Data Service – Advice for
Depositors:
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/d
epositCreate3

7. Investigation Indexes
• Historic Environment Information Resources
Network (HEIRNET) includes SMRs and NMRs:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirnet/index.cfm
• English Heritage Geophysical Survey Database:
http://sdb2.eng-h.gov.uk/

8. Monument Indexes
• Heritage Environment Records (referred to as
HERs or SMRs). Find these through the
Heritage Gateway:
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/
chr/default.aspx
• ADS guidance documentation on HERs:
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ifp/Wiki.j
sp?page=SectionD.6

9. Artefact Repositories
• Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS):
http://www.finds.org.uk/

10. Or Publish Online Yourself
• Even this is easy, if you know where to look!
– Use free blogging services
– Find a host

11. Hosts for Online Publication
• Council of British Archaeology, Community
Archaeology pages:
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/community/
• CBA will host pages for community
archaeology projects, at the Community
Archaeology Forum:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wak
ka=TemplatePages
• CAF is a Wiki.

12. What is a Wiki?
• Wikis are pages that many people can edit.
• They have easy shortcut words that you can
use when typing to create new pages.
• CAF is a wiki, so anyone can start a new page
for a new project.

13. How to use CAF
Creating new pages:
@@[[ProjectBackground background]] |
[[ProjectMethodology methodology]] |
[[ProjectResults results]] | [[ProjectDiscussion
discussion]]@@.
So, if your project was called ‘Highfield Campus Dig’
you would type:
@@[[HighfieldCampusDig background]] |
[[HighfieldCampusDig methodology]] |
[[HighfieldCampusDig results]] |
[[HighfieldCampusDig discussion]]@@.

14. How to use CAF
• This would give you four new pages in the
website titled ‘HighfieldCampusDig’, called:
– Background
– Methodology
– Results
– Discussion

15. CAF Examples:
• Access Cambridge Archaeology:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wakka
=AccessCambridgeArchaeology
• Caer Alyn Archaeological and Heritage Project:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wakka
=CaerAlynArchaeologicalandHeritageProject
• Community Landscape Archaeology Survey
Project:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/caf/wikka.php?wakka
=ClaspProject

19. Blogging
• There are many free blogging platforms that you can sign
up to. The most popular are:
• Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1
• Wordpress: http://wordpress.com/
– When you look for Wordpress, there are two possible options.
– Wordpress.com is for blogs that are hosted by Wordpress. For
these, you don’t need to do anything technical. You just need an
email address to sign up, and web access to get to your blog.
– Wordpress.org allows you to download and install your own
blog, on your own server. This is the more advanced option. For
most projects, Wordpress.com is flexible enough.

20. How to use Wordpress
• Once you have a Wordpress account, you can
have multiple blogs.
• Blog is short for ‘web log’.
• A blog is a website that has journal-like posts
in chronological order.
• But blogs are being used more and more as
regular websites.

21. Some Examples:
• Wordpress:
• http://smrarchaeology.wordpress.com/
• http://rossnareedig.wordpress.com/
• Blogger:
• http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.co.uk/
• http://elfrethsalleyarchaeology.blogspot.co.uk
/

26. Terminology
• If you are writing about
Archaeology, wherever possible, try to use
accepted terms.
• For example, use word lists:
– National Monuments and Records Thesauri:
http://thesaurus.english-
heritage.org.uk/frequentuser.htm
– RCHME Archaeological Periods terms list:
http://www.fish-forum.info/i_apl_e.htm

27. Get involved in Planning!
• Getting involved in the planning process in
your local area is easy.
• There are lots of ways to do this.

28. Planning Regulations
• Planning Policy Guidance 16 (PPG16) is no
more!
• Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the
Historic Environment: Archaeology and
Planning is no more!
• Replaced with section 12 of the National
Policy Planning Framework (March 2012):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications
/national-planning-policy-framework--2

29. Ways to get involved
• Community Planning:
http://www.communityplanning.net/
• Royal Town Planning Institute: http://www.rtpi.org.uk/
• Local Strategic Partnerships Guide:
http://www.urbanforum.org.uk/publications/the-lsp-
guide
• CABE Guide: Community-Led Spaces:
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/sites/www.britarch.ac.
uk/files/node-files/community-led-spaces.pdf
• SAVE Britain’s Heritage, campaign guide:
http://www.savebritainsheritage.org/your_campaign/

30. More ways to get involved
• Civic Voice: http://www.civicvoice.org.uk/
• The Victorian Society Campaign Guide:
http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/about/campa
igning-guide/
• Campaign to Protect Rural England, How to
Challenge Bad Developments Guide:
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/sites/www.britar
ch.ac.uk/files/node-
files/Howtochallengebaddevelopments_CPRE.pdf
• The Heritage Alliance:
http://www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/

31. Archaeology:
Getting Involved
Urban Archaeology
Session 12

32. Ways to get involved
• Community Archaeology
• National organisations
• Regional organisations
• Research institutions
• Commercial units

33. Community Archaeology
• CBA Community Archaeology pages:
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/community/

34. Archaeology Standards
• IfA Standards Guides:
http://www.archaeologists.net/codes/ifa
• BAJR Guide 23 - Practical archaeology
recording, includes context sheets and risk
assessments:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13000839/BAJR-
Guide-23-Recording-Report-and-other-templates
• MOLAS Site Manual (1994 IS the most recent
edition!):
http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk
/NR/rdonlyres/056B4AFD-AB5F-45AF-9097-
5A53FFDC1F94/0/MoLASManual94.pdf

35. Fieldwork
• Fieldwork lists:
– http://www.archaeologyuk.org/briefing/fieldwork
– British Archaeology Magazine:
http://www.britisharchaeology.org/
– Archaeology Fieldwork jobs list:
http://www.archaeologyfieldwork.com/AFW
– Past Horizons Archaeology Projects:
http://www.pasthorizons.com/worldprojects/
– Archaeological Institute of America (covers European fieldwork
opportunities): http://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob
– Archaeology Abroad book, managed by UCL (has a £20
subscription, but is very good):
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/archabroad/

36. National Organisations
• Institute for Archaeologists (IfA):
http://www.archaeologists.net/
• Council for British Archaeology (CBA):
http://new.archaeologyuk.org/

37. Specialist Organisations
• The Young Archaeologists’s Club: www.britarch.ac.uk/yac/
• The Prehistoric Society: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/
• The Association for Roman
Archaeology: http://www.associationromanarchaeology.org/
• The Society For Medieval Archaeology: http://www.socmedarch.org/
• The Society for Post-Medieval
Archaeology: http://www.spma.org.uk/fs1/FS.html
• The European Association of Archaeologists: http://www.e-a-a.org/
• World Archaeological
Congress: http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/home.php
• The Association for Industrial Archaeology: http://industrial-
archaeology.org/
• The Society for Church Archaeology:
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/socchurcharchaeol/

38. Related Organisations
• English Heritage: http://www.english-
heritage.org.uk/
• Historic Scotland: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
• Cadw: http://cadw.wales.gov.uk
• Portable Antiquities
Scheme: http://www.finds.org.uk/
• Rescue, The British Archaeological
Trust: http://www.rescue-
archaeology.freeserve.co.uk/
• Scotland’s Past: http://www.scotlandspast.org/

39. Regional Organisations
• Regional Branches of National Organisations
– CBA Wessex: http://www.cba-wessex.org.uk/
• Local Clubs
– British Archaeology list of regional and local
archaeology societies (not comprehensive, but
very useful):
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/info/socs.asp

40. Local to Hampshire
• Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society: http://www.fieldclub.hants.org.uk/
• Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society: http://www.hias.org.uk/
• Hampshire Mills Group: http://www.hampshiremills.org/
• Winchester City Trust: http://www.cwthome.co.uk/
• Hampshire Genealogical Society: http://www.hgs-online.org.uk/
• Basingstoke Archaeological and Historical Society: http://www.bahsoc.org.uk/
• Lower Test Valley Archaeological Study Group:
http://www.romseynet.org.uk/ltvas.htm
• North East Hampshire Historical and Archaeological Society:
http://www.hants.org.uk/nehhas/
• Southampton Local History Forum:
http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/southamptonlocalhistoryforum/
• WARG: the society for Winchester archaeology and local history (was Winchester
Rescue Archaeology Group): http://www.warg.hampshire.org.uk/home.htm
• Southampton Local History Forum:
http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/southamptonlocalhistoryforum/

41. Research Institutions
• To check the reputation of an Archaeology
Department, see The Subject Committee for
Archaeology:
http://www.universityarchaeology.org.uk/
• Universities

42. Universities with Archaeology
Departments
University of LeicesterWEBSITE
University of AberdeenWEBSITE
University of LiverpoolWEBSITE
Bangor, University of WalesWEBSITE
University College, University of
Queen's University, BelfastWEBSITE
LondonWEBSITE
University of BirminghamWEBSITE
University of ManchesterWEBSITE
Bournemouth UniversityWEBSITE
Newcastle UniversityWEBSITE
University of BradfordWEBSITE
University of NottinghamWEBSITE
University of BristolWEBSITE
University of the Highlands &
University of CambridgeWEBSITE
Islands, Kirkwall CollegeWEBSITE
Cardiff UniversityWEBSITE
University of OxfordWEBSITE
Durham UniversityWEBSITE
University of ReadingWEBSITE
University of EdinburghWEBSITE
University of SheffieldWEBSITE
University of ExeterWEBSITE
University of SouthamptonWEBSITE
University of GlasgowWEBSITE
Truro CollegeWEBSITE
University of Kent at CanterburyWEBSITE
University of WinchesterWEBSITE
Lampeter, University of WalesWEBSITE
University of YorkWEBSITE

43. Commercial Units
• Index of commercial units that take
volunteers:
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/archonline

44. Charities
• Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime
Archaeology: http://www.hwtma.org.uk/
• Wessex Archaeology:
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/

45. Keeping up to date
with Archaeology

46. Keeping up to date
• Training and Events
• Online Resources
• Publications
• Academic Papers
• Archaeological Reports

47. Training & Events
• CBA and English Heritage run, Training Online
Resource Centre (TORC): http://www.torc.org.uk/
• Festival of British Archaeology (July each year):
http://festival.britarch.ac.uk/
• IfA Jobs Information Service (paid, free to IfA
members): http://www.archaeologists.net/jis
• British Archaeological Jobs Resource (BAJR)
(replaces the Digger, has the archive to 2006):
http://www.bajr.org/Employment/UKEmploymen
t.asp

48. Online Resources
• Channel 4 Time Team website:
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timete
am/
• The Archaeology Data Service: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/
• Archnet: http://archnet.asu.edu/
• Archaeology: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/kevin.greene/
wintro/index.htm
• Archaeological Resource Guide for
Europe: http://odur.let.rug.nl/arge/
• Spoilheap: http://www.spoilheap.co.uk/

49. Other Resources
• University of Leicester Museums Jobs Desk:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/Jo
bsDesk
• Museum Jobs: http://www.museumjobs.com/
• Archaeologie Forum (in German, but the jobs postings
are in English!):
http://archaeologieforum.at/index.php/cb-jiob-anzeige
• Underwater Archaeology and Maritime History Jobs:
http://underwaterarchaeologyjobs.wordpress.com/

50. Publications
• Antiquity: http://antiquity.ac.uk/
• Archaeology Ireland:
http://www.wordwellbooks.com/publisher.ph
p?Publishers=Archaeology+Ireland
• British
Archaeology: www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba.html
• Current Archaeology
magazine: http://www.archaeology.co.uk/

51. Academic Papers
• Journal of Open Archaeology Data (note this is data, not
papers or reports):
http://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com
• Open Access Archaeology ( index of open access
archaeology resources):
http://www.openaccessarchaeology.org/
• Directory of Open Access Journals:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?cpid=12&func=subject
• Internet Archaeology Journal (part-free, part-paid):
http://intarch.ac.uk/
• The Data Hub, open access data for Archaeology (again,
data, not publications):
http://datahub.io/group/archaeology

52. Archaeological Reports
• Free to access archaeological data and reports:
• Archaeology Data Service’s ArchSearch, catalogue of all data held by the ADS:
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archsearch/
• Archaeology Data Service’s Archives, includes journals, reports, entire project
archives, PhD theses, and grey literature:
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/
• If an organisation already hosts reports online, the ADS will only have a catalogue
record. E.g. with Wessex Archaeology, the reports are here:
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/reports but are also included on the ADS archives
website.
• Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports (with Society of Antiquaires of Scotland):
http://www.sair.org.uk/
• British Archaeological Reports (BAR reports), from Archaeopress (these cost. £18
for digital version, £30 printed edition):
http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultArchaeopress.asp
• English Heritage Archaeology Archive is all on PastScape:
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/

53. Investigation Registers
• OASIS - Online AccesS to the Index of
archaeological investigationS:
http://www.oasis.ac.uk/
• Bournemouth University Archaeological
Investigations Project (BuAIP) gazetters:
http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/aip/aipintro
.htm

54. Keep in Contact!
• Nicole Beale: nicole.beale@soton.ac.uk
• Gareth Beale: gareth.beale@soton.ac.uk
• Urban Archaeology Website:
http://urbarch.wordpress.com/
• Archaeological Computing Research Group:
http://acrg.soton.ac.uk/