Buildings Archaeology Group

Background

The IfA Buildings Archaeology Special Interest Group was reformed in 2003 to act as a forum for promoting the archaeological analysis, research, interpretation of standing structures.

Aims

The group aims to promote the analysis of the built environment and to raise awareness of approaches and methodologies to address the wider role of buildings archaeology with other professionals in built heritage sector by:

• advising IfA council on issues relating to standing buildings and being consulted during the drafting of new recording guidelines and heritage legislation.
• Producing regular newsletters (two per year)
• Articles in the IfA magazine ‘The Archaeologist’
• Training events (seminars, guidance and conference sessions)
• Developing links with associated heritage professionals
• To provide a forum for addressing the wider role of buildings archaeology within the built heritage sector

Join the group

Membership is free to IfA members, and £10 for non-members. Please email groups@archaeologists.net to find out about membership or be added to our electronic mailing list, or contact the IfA office at

Institute for Archaeologists
Miller Building, University of Reading
Whiteknights Reading, RG6 6AB

Tel: 0118 378 6446

Committee

Mike Nevell (Chair)
Caroline Vile (Secretary)
Karen Averby (Treasurer)

Ed James (Newsletter Editor)
Frank Green (Events)
Bob Hill (Standards)
Lara Band (OCM)

• Previous Years AGM and EGM Minutes

• Previous Years Committee Minutes

• Previous Years Newsletters

Conference Sessions (pdf files)

• IfA Annual Conference, Torquay 2009 - pages from TA 73
• IfA Annual Conference, Swansea 2008- session review and presentations
• IFA Annual Conference, Reading 2007 - pages from TA 65 and presentations
• IFA Annual Conference, Edinburgh 2006 - session review
• IFA Annual Conference, Winchester 2005 - session review plus papers

Training Articles (pdf file)

• Articles by Catherine Cavanagh and Catherine Cavanagh & Aretha George from The Archaeologist number 67

The IfA Finds and Buildings Archaeology Groups held a joint seminar with the Archaeological Ceramic Buildings Group in 2005: the potential of buildings archaeology and building materials.

Papers:

• Building Material Research - Ian Betts (MOLAS)
• The Big Picture - Pat Reynolds (CBM Researcher)
• What can tile tell us? - Phil Mills (University of Leicester)
• Ceramic building materials in archaeology - Sandra Garside-Neville (CBM Researcher)
• The staffordshire potteries; an archaeological approach - David Barker (Stoke on Trent Council)
• The Wild Court Rookery; the archaeology of a 19th century London slum in its social and international context - Bruce Watson and Nigel Jeffries (MOLAS)
• The role of research agendas and data in the historic environment - Stephen Deane (Staffordshire County Council)
• From Ale house to Crack house; documenting the decline of the Sheffield pub - Oliver Jessop and Mark Douglas (ARCUS)