EoP98 Implementation Plan

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The list of Goals, Programmes and Sub-programmes is given below.

Primary goal A - Advancing understanding of England's archaeology

Programme 1: Assessing the known resource
1.1 Intensive and extensive urban strategies
1.2 National Monument evaluations
1.3 Understanding the cropmark resource
1.4 Historic landscape characterisation
1.5 Collaboration with the Countryside Agency
1.6 National mapping programme
1.7 Assessing and understanding specific landscapes and monuments
1.8 Analysing the national resource
1.9 Urban Parks

Programme 2: Promoting under-studied or vulnerable areas
2.1 Coastal archaeology
2.2 The offshore submerged zone
2.3 Wet and waterlogged areas
2.4 Alluvial and colluvial zones
2.5 Exploring areas with significantly low monument densities
2.6 Palaeoenvironmental resource

Programme 3: Synthetic projects
3.1 Artefact reviews
3.2 Archaeotechnology review
3.3 Thematic syntheses

Programme 4: Dissemination of information from backlog projects
4.1 External projects
4.2 Archaeology Division projects
4.3 Historic Properties projects

Primary goal B - securing the conservation of England's archaeological landscape, sites and collections

Programme 5: Survival assessment
5.1 Disseminate the results of the Monuments at Risk Survey
5.2 Agricultural damage
5.3 Archaeological response to forestry and woodland
5.4 Monuments at risk
5.5 Monitoring the condition of scheduled sites (AP)
5.6 Monitoring the condition of scheduled sites (FMW etc)
5.7 Active monitoring of English Heritage collections
5.8 Audit English Heritage collections and wall paintings
5.9 Modern suburbs

Programme 6: Protection and conservation
6.1 Scheduling
6.2 Management agreements, purchasing monuments, and other schemes
6.3 Development of conservation theory
6.4 Local Authority archaeological posts
6.5 Advancing from PPG15 & PPG16
6.6 New legislation and regulation
6.7 Sites and monument records
6.8 Enhancing monument setting
6.9 Local initiatives to use SMR data to engage local issues and interest
6.10 Disseminate information from the Monuments Protection Programme
6.11 Historic Properties archaeology collections management

Programme 7: Threat-led fieldwork
7.1 Rapid response capability for emergencies
7.2 Recording archaeology under threat outside the planning process
7.3 Recording significant archaeology under threat on pre-PPG16 consents
7.4 Unexpected discoveries during PPG16-conditioned development

Primary goal C - supporting the development of research frameworks

Programme 8: Research frameworks
8.1 Regional resource assessments
8.2 Regional environmental reviews
8.3 Regional seminars
8.4 Assist national bodies articulation with the regional agenda
8.5 Regional agenda and strategies
8.6 A national consortium
8.7 Research frameworks database, bibliography & web site
8.8 Framework guidelines
8.9 Landmark conferences
8.10 Incorporation small scale PPG16 work into regional reviews & synthesis
8.11 Develop reference collections

Programme 9: Research projects
9.1 Rock art
9.2 The absolute dating of the Wessex and Sussex causewayed enclosures
9.3 Stone and wooden circles
9.4 The antiquity of dairying
9.5 Anglo-Saxon England c 570-720: the chronological basis
9.6 Windsor Castle

Primary goal D - promoting public appreciation and enjoyment of archaeology

Programme 10: Education
10.1 Collaboration with English Heritage's Education Branch
10.2 Innovative dissemination of archaeological information for schools

Programme 11: Local archaeology and public involvement
11.1 Disseminate information about archaeology and the planning process
11.2 Local projects to develop monitoring, recording, etc, historic landscapes
11.3 Local societies & interest groups access to arch info & expertise
11.4 Display facilities
11.5 Farm survey grants
11.6 Challenge funding

Programme 12: World Heritage Sites
12.1 Stonehenge landscape
12.2 Avebury
12.3 Hadrian's Wall
12.4 Ironbridge
12.5 Supporting theoretical and methodological development

Programme 13: English Heritage's historic properties
13.1 Fort Cumberland English Heritage Archaeology Research Centre
13.2 Whitby Abbey
13.3 Wigmore Castle
13.4 Battle Abbey

Primary goal E - developing professional infrastructure and skills

Programme 14: Developing skills
14.1 Facilitating participation
14.2 Increase awareness in other disciplines of inter-action with archaeology
14.3 Training staff
14.4 Training schools
14.5 Development career structures & minimum standards of employment

Programme 15: Museum archive facilities
15.1 Encourage the definition of museum collecting areas
15.2 Core standards for the transfer of archaeological archives
15.3 Guidelines for the disposal or dispersal of archaeological archives
15.4 Audit of physical condition of major archives held by contractors
15.5 Review, with the MGC, archaeological storage grant schemes
15.6 Survey use of archaeological archives
15.7 Assist in evaluating proposals for regional resource centres
15.8 Assist in development of archaeological resource centres

Programme 16: Communication and dissemination
16.1 Review of publication and dissemination policies
16.2 Disseminate information on scientific techniques
16.3 Technical and advisory papers
16.4 Explore the curation of digital archaeological archives
16.5 Disseminate information about archaeological interventions
16.6 Promote and support debate on managing the archaeological resource
16.7 Support the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
16.8 Encourage European wide contacts
16.9 Develop and enable electronic contact
16.10 Develop web site
16.11 Develop internal communication
16.12 Disseminate state-of-the-art methodologies & application
16.13 Disseminate information about conservation projects
16.14 Disseminate information on MARS implementation plan
16.15 Disseminate information on architectural paint research
16.16 Disseminate information on wall paintings

Programme 17: Methodological and technical development
17.1 Evaluation techniques
17.2 Geo-prospecting techniques
17.3 Intra-site sampling and retrieval
17.4 The study of formation processes and residuality
17.5 Taphonomy
17.6 New scientific techniques for analysis
17.7 Statistics
17.8 De-watering
17.9 Mitigation strategies and in-situ preservation
17.10 Deposit modelling
17.11 Predictive modelling strategies
17.12 Fieldwork recording techniques
17.13 Refining archaeological chronologies through scientific dating
17.14 DNA studies
17.15 New models for post-excavation analysis
17.16 New methods for electronic dissemination of information
17.17 New methods for recording buildings