Archaeology forum recognised.

slowburner

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!

randomperson12

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

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).

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.

Aelfric

It already exists - www.heritagedata.ie

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

Aelfric

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.

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.

randomperson12

i like that booklet they had ,very informative

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.