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  • 18-12-2013 11:25am
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    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Specific mention is made of the Boards.ie Archaeology forum in the National Monuments Service publication, 'Surveying Our Heritage', launched yesterday.
    Our contribution to the recording of 'new' monuments is thus recognised.
    At the launch last night (17/12/13), special mention was made of contributions from non-professionals who have become expert in recognising crop marks and other anomalies of archaeological merit - especially through the use of Google Earth, Bing (we were always ahead with Bing!), the OSI and Archaeology.ie.

    Not bad for an internet chat forum. Keep it up folks!


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    randomperson12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭randomperson12


    this fouroms handy i know now the name of a new fairy fort means


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    bawn79
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭bawn79


    slowburner wrote: »
    Specific mention is made of the Boards.ie Archaeology forum in the National Monuments Service publication, 'Surveying Our Heritage', launched yesterday.
    Our contribution to the recording of 'new' monuments is thus recognised.
    At the launch last night (17/12/13), special mention was made of contributions from non-professionals who have become expert in recognising crop marks and other anomalies of archaeological merit - especially through the use of Google Earth, Bing (we were always ahead with Bing!), the OSI and Archaeology.ie.

    Not bad for an internet chat forum. Keep it up folks!

    I wonder would there be a way of formalising this. I would imagine that for a small outlay the NMS (or maybe via a third party to avoid having to pay for the use of google maps / bing) could route all the SMR data onto Google Maps / Bing. Then the country could be broken up into grids with the "amateurs" reviewing each grid individually. Perhaps each grid would have a little record menu of who has viewed it, whether the person ticked a box to say the reviewed it "100%" and the number of times that section of gird had been reviewed. Maybe even allow a comment as to the speciality of that person. (For example I think I would be better at spotting prehistoric sites that more recent sites).


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    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    bawn79 wrote: »
    I wonder would there be a way of formalising this. I would imagine that for a small outlay the NMS (or maybe via a third party to avoid having to pay for the use of google maps / bing) could route all the SMR data onto Google Maps / Bing. Then the country could be broken up into grids with the "amateurs" reviewing each grid individually. Perhaps each grid would have a little record menu of who has viewed it, whether the person ticked a box to say the reviewed it "100%" and the number of times that section of gird had been reviewed. Maybe even allow a comment as to the speciality of that person. (For example I think I would be better at spotting prehistoric sites that more recent sites).
    It's a nice idea but I can't see it happening.


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    Aelfric
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    It already exists - www.heritagedata.ie

    Or this: http://webgis.archaeology.ie/NationalMonuments/FlexViewer/


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    Aelfric
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    Also, under the terms of the proposed new National Monuments Bill:

    ​The system of recording and listing monuments that has developed over time is far too complex and should be simplified. There will be one Register of Monuments which will be GIS based and available online.


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    Aelfric
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭Aelfric


    The publication mentioned in the original post, is included as a supplement with the current edition of Archaeology Ireland. The mention of boards.ie is in the final piece by Claire Breen.


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    randomperson12
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    i like that booklet they had ,very informative


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    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    It's great to have this place to come to for info and in case we come across something interesting that may be nothing. I would be daunted to go to specialist sites with something that could end up with a silly explanation.
    Well done Archeology forum people.

    edit : actually, it's not just the "having a place to come to", it's also the spot to learn, I love the threads where people post lithics (or other items) they have found to find out if they are or not of archeological interest. I feel if I came across something on a walk, I would now likely recognize it as an interesting item.


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