Buildings Archaeology Group

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Buildings Archaeology Group

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.

Committee Officers

The BAG Committee is elected annually at the AGM

Marilyn Palmer (Chair), Jonathan Mullis (Hon Secretary), Jon Lowe (Treasurer), Heather Lindsay (Education and Outreach), Geraint Franklin (Newsletter Designer), Edmund Simons (Newsletter Editor), Kirsten McKee (Newsletter Assistant), Oliver Jessop (Website Editor), David Divers (Group Liaison)

Committee Members

Bob Hill, Mike Nevell, Frank Green, Peter Owen, Catherine Cavanagh, Jonathan Edis, Jonathan Smith,

Members of the Committee at the new Welsh Assembly building/Senedd in Cardiff Bay designed by the architect Richard Rogers and opened in 2006

Role of BAG

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 Buildings Archaeology Group

Please contact the Hon Secretary Jonathan Mullis at the address below to find out about membership, or be added to our electronic mailing list. Membership is free to IfA members, and £10 for non-members.

c/o Institute for Archaeologists, SHES, University of Reading, PO Box 227, Reading, RG6 6AU Email: jonathan.mullis@jacobs.com or groups@archaeologists.net

Current membership is about 500 and comprises a mixture of archaeologists, curatorial archaeologists, consultants, architects, conservation officers, surveyors and heritage professionals.

The group produces a biannual newsletter. We would be pleased to receive articles, roundups of recent work, book reviews, or relevant courses. Please contact Edmund Simons edmund.simons@aocarchaeology.com with your submission.

BAG Newsletters

Autumn 2009 (32) (PDF) Unfortunately Jason Wood's article was incorrectly type set in this news letter. The full article can be downloaded here.

Spring 2008 (31) (PDF)

Autumn 2007 (29) (PDF)

Autumn 2006 (28) (PDF)

Spring 2006 (27) (PDF)

Autumn 2005 (26) (PDF)

Spring 2005 (25) (PDF)

Autumn 2004 (24)(PDF)

Spring 2004 (23)(PDF)

BAG Education

Conference Sessions

IfA Annual Conference, Torquay 2009 PDF - pages from TA 73

IfA Annual Conference, Swansea 2008 PDF - session review and presentations, large file

IFA Annual Conference, Reading 2007 PDF - pages from TA 65 and presentations, large file

IFA Annual Conference, Edinburgh 2006 PDF - session review

IFA Annual Conference, Winchester 2005 PDF - session review plus papers

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)

Buildings Group Training Articles

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