Buildings Archaeology Group

Group EGM

An EGM for the group will take place on Friday 26 August 2011 at Guildhall in London. A notice and nomination form, if you wish to go forward for election the committee, can be downloaded here.

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.

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.

It advises IfA council on issues relating to standing buildings and is consulted during the drafting of new recording guidelines and heritage legislation.

The group aims to promote buildings archaeology within the profession by:

• 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 contact the address below to find out about membership, or be added to our electronic mailing list.

Institute for Archaeologists
SHES
University of Reading
PO Box 227
Reading, RG6 6AU
Email: groups@archaeologists.net

Committee

The BAG Committee is elected annually at the AGM.

Committee Officers

Chair - Mike Nevell
Secretary – Caroline Vile
Treasurer - Karen Averby
Newsletter Editor – Ed James
Events – Frank Green
Standards - Bob Hill

Newsletters

The new committee will start to work on a new newsletter very soon.

Education

Training Day Building Materials Day School 2005 (in conjunction with IfA Finds Group at the LAARC)

The IfA Finds and Buildings Archaeology Groups held a joint seminar with the Archaeological Ceramic Buildings Group: 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)