HERs signed up to Data Transfer Agreement
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), the National Council for Metal Detecting (NCMD and the Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers (ALGAO) have now agreed the terms and conditions for the transfer of PAS data to Historic Environment Records (HERs) and Sites and Monuments Records (SMRs).
The agreement means that HERs/SMRs will be able to use PAS data for all their normal purposes, such as development-control work and research enquiries, but they will only publish findspots on the Internet in the same way as the PAS does on its finds database (see www.finds.org.uk).
This is to say that no finds will be published on the Internet to more than at National Grid Reference (NGR) of 4 figures (1kmsq), and only at parish (or less) for Treasure finds and finds from sites where the finder, landowner, HER Officer or Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) believes that there is a conservation threat (such as the risk of nighthawking) if the findspot is published.
The following Historic Environment Records have signed up to this agreement:
- Bath & North East Somerset Council - Stuart Cakebread
- Berkshire Archaeology - Teresa Hocking
- Buckinghamshire County Council - Julia Wise
- Cambria Archaeology - Marion Page
- Cambridgeshire County Council - Sarah Poppy
- Cheshire County Council - Robert Edwards
- Chichester District Council - James Kenny
- Colchester Museums Service UAD - Alex Richards
- Cornwall County Council - John Smith
- Coventry City Council - Anna Wilson
- CPAT - Jeff Spencer
- Cumbria - Richard Newman
- Derbyshire County Council - Dave Barrett
- Devon County Council - Ann Marie Dick
- East Sussex County Council / Brighton & Hove City Council - Andrew Woodcock
- Essex County Council - Paul Gilman
- Glamorgan & Gwent Archaeological Trust - Gail Higginbottom
- Gloucester City Council - M Watkins
- Gloucestershire County Council - Tim Grubb
- Greater London - English Heritage -
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust - Nina Steele
- Hampshire County Council - Nigel Pratt
- Herefordshire - Melissa Sedden
- Hertfordshire County Council - Stewart Bryant
- Humberside Archaeology Partnership - Dave H. Evans
- Lake District National Park Authority - Eleanor Kingston
- Lancashire County Council - Peter Iles
- Lancashire County Council - Ken Davies
- Leicestershire County Council - Richard Clark
- Manchester SMR - Elizabeth Chantler
- Merseyside - Sarah-Jane Farr
- Norfolk Archaeology & Environment - Brian Ayers
- North Lincolnshire - Kevin Leahy
- North Somerset Council - Stuart Cakebread
- North Yorkshire - Neil Campling
- Northamptonshire County Council - Myk Flitcroft
- Nottinghamshire County Council - David Wood
- Oxfordshire County Council - Susan Lisk
- RCAHMW - David Thomas
- Shropshire County Council - Clare Gathercole
- South Gloucestershire - David Evans
- South Yorkshire Archaeology Service - Louisa Matthews
- Southampton City Council - Ingrid Peckham
- Staffordshire County Council - Suzanne Blake
- Suffolk County Council - Colin Pendleton
- Surrey County Council - Emily Brants
- Warwickshire County Council - Jonathan Parkhouse
- West Berkshire Council - Sarah Orr
- West Sussex County Council - J Dickinson
- West Yorkshire Joint Services - Stuart Wrathmell
- Winchester City Council - Dick Whinney
- Wolverhampton City Council - Debbie Langley
- Worcester City Museum Archaeology Service - Sheena Payne
- Worcestershire - Victoria Bryant
If your HER wishes to sign up to this agreement, please sign and return this form to the Scheme's head office for the attention of Daniel Pett, ICT Adviser.
Data primarily will be available in MIDAS XML format, more details of which can be found on the Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) website. The system we use, can also parse data in a variety of other formats, but we would prefer to use the aforementioned data transfer standard if possible.
