Winter 2008 Number 70 The ARCHAEOLOGIST This issue: HERITAGE PROTECTION Heritage Protection Reform – an English Heritage overview p15 IfA, the Heritage Protection Bill and planning guidance p16 Conservation areas – protecting the jewels in Institute of Archaeologists England’s crown SHE’s, University of Reading, Whiteknights PO Box 227, Reading RG6 6AB p34 tel: 0118 378 6446 fax: 0118 378 6448
[email protected] www.archaeologists.net C ONTENTS 1 Contents 2 Editorial 3 From the finds tray 7 View from the Chair Gerry Wait page 15 8 Survey results: Members’ views on Continuing Professional Development Kenneth Aitchison & Kate Geary 9 Pay, quality and the role of IfA Kate Geary 10 Disability and the archaeological profession – call for participants Tim Phillips 11 Building Foundations - a geotechnical standard for soil description Frigga Kruse 12 Outsourcing: Cambridgeshire’s archaeological field unit goes west Adrian Tindall 14 Protection and understanding through earthwork survey – a purely British practice? Kate Page-Smith 15 Heritage Protection Reform – an English Heritage overview Sarah Buckingham 16 IfA, the Heritage Protection Bill and planning guidance Peter Hinton 18 Heritage Protection Reform: a brief history Rachael McMillan 20 HPR: strategies for designation Lucy Oldnall page 28 21 Training and capacity building in the historic environment Paul Jeffery 22 A Planning Policy Statement for the historic environment Charles Wagner 23 Archaeology under cultivation: reforming Class Consent Vince Holyoak 24 Heritage protection