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Historic Building Recording

Guidance for Curators and Commercial Archaeological Contractors

By B. Simpson and D. Connolly
East Lothian Council Archaeology Service
February 2006
1.2. This guidance builds upon the Historic Building Recording (HBR) guidelines set out by the RCHME in 1996 and RCAHMS in 1997 with reference to the Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers (ALGAO) 1997 document - Analysis and Recording for the Conservation and Control of Works to Historic Buildings; the Standard and Guidance–for the archaeological recording of standing building and structures published by the Institute of Field Archaeologists (IFA) in 2001; English Heritage’s 2003 publication Measured and Drawn: Techniques and practice for the metric survey of historic buildings; and, Historic Scotland’s recently published Guide for Practitioners-Measured Survey and Building Recording (2003), in an attempt to produce a clear and common document which both curators and archaeological contractors can use to facilitate consensus on the requirement and type of historic building recording that is required for a particular building or set of buildings.