General Questions

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* 1. Name of Service and ALGAO member Local Authority or Authorities

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* 2. Does your service collect archaeological archives for all or some of your area?

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* 3. How many individual museum/archaeological archive repository collecting areas fall within your county/district/unitary authority area?

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* 4. Are there any areas within your authority where no archaeological archives are regularly being collected for curation? “Regularly” is taken here to mean will accept all archives prepared to a standard without selection

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* 5. Is anyone within your service aware of any of the following archive standards?

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* 6. Does each repository within your area have their own archiving guidelines or shared archiving guidelines? Please select all that apply.

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* 7. Did your service have any input in the creation of these guidelines?

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* 8. Do you receive regular notifications from the repositories of the archives they have received?

High level Strategy

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* 9. Are archaeological archives specifically mentioned within your local plan, or any other policy/strategy document relating to the historic environment?

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* 10. If Yes, please provide links or an example of the text.

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* 11. If no, why are archaeological archives not referred to?

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* 12. Are archaeological archives referenced within your areas CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) requirements?

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* 13. If Yes, please provide examples and a short summary of how you justified this

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* 14. If no, why are archaeological archives not referenced?

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* 15. Has your service ever secured Section 106 funding for an aspect of archaeological archiving?

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* 16. If yes for any or all of Questions 9, 12 and 15, from what organisations did you take advice from regarding archaeological archives?

Project Stage

For questions 17 to 23 please select all stages that apply.

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* 17. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, requirements regarding the identification of a repository for archaeological archives?

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* 18. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, requirements regarding Transfer of Title for archaeological archives?

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* 19. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, requirements regarding an acknowledgement of the potential costs of archaeological archiving?

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* 20. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, requirements regarding potential retention strategies for archaeological archive created within your area?

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* 21. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, requirements regarding any unique requirements for a sites archaeological archive? Eg. Conservation needs, display potential etc.

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* 22. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, requirements regarding an estimation of the size of an archaeological archive?

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* 23. At what stage(s) do you refer to, or expect contractors to address, any requirements regarding any other claims to the material within an archive? Eg. Treasure Act, war graves, re-burial of human remains, landowner refusal, landowner desire to retain selected elements?

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* 24. What are your requirements for digital archiving?

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* 25. Has your service gained a legal opinion (external or from your organisations own legal department) regarding any aspect of archaeological archives within the planning process? Possible examples would be involving the primacy of briefs or WSI’s within the planning process, aspects of transfer of title or enforceability etc.

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* 26. Has your service ever used enforcement powers to secure the archaeological archiving process for a site?

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* 27. Do you have any further thoughts, comments or ideas for improving the archaeological archiving process?

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* 28. The project is looking to arrange workshops to discuss the results of this survey. Would you like to attend?

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