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Catalogue description Record of Scheduled Monuments: 2004 snapshot
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| Reference: | WORK 93/1 |
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| Title: | Record of Scheduled Monuments: 2004 snapshot |
| Description: | This dataset is a snapshot of the Record of Scheduled Monuments (RSM) taken in 2004. The Record of Scheduled Monuments (RSM) is English Heritage's primary national database of scheduled monument information. It was originally built to facilitate the administrative processes involved in scheduling, and in this respect is more like the Listing Management System than the Listed Building System (LBS). However, the RSM also holds much data on scheduled monuments analogous to that held by the LBS on listed buildings which is of use to those involved in ancient monument casework in regional teams. The process of scheduling monuments and the consequent requirement to retain records of that statutory process began in 1882. The first project for computerisation of the process began in 1980. The RSM system was intended to computerise scheduling procedures and facilitate machine-based systems for recording and monitoring what happens to monuments, including the reports of the Field Monument Wardens who visit monuments regularly to comment on condition and management needs. The Record of Scheduled Monuments (RSM) dataset contains a record of every scheduled ancient monument in the United Kingdom at the time when the snapshot was taken (2004). There are two distinct 'types' of scheduled monument with their own distinct data domain; the two domains relate to the Monuments Protection Programme (MPP) and the Old County Number (OCN) system. Data capture standards were formalised and consistently applied under the MPP. The Department thought it was likely that all OCN monuments would eventually be assessed by the MPP, and either be descheduled or superseded by MPP schedulings. Eventually the OCN domain would exist simply as an archive. At that point the record of scheduled monuments would consist solely of MPP sites. Of the two domains, the OCN domain contains earlier data. Some of the OCN schedulings date from the 19th century, and some tables in the OCN domain refer to pre-legislation (1882) events in the early modern period, to Domesday Book (1087) and some even earlier dates (1060, for example). However, users should be aware these dates are not system-validated dates, and are likely to have been taken from published sources. The MPP domain is the newer of the two domains, containing data from the late 1980s, when the Monuments Protection Programme commenced. The MPP domain contains five linked areas of information, which reflect the academic, administrative and legal needs of the system: 1) The Scheduled Monument record (SMR), which holds data common to each scheduled monument. 2) The Archaeological Item record, which holds data specific to individual, archaeologically defined sites. 3) The Constraint Area record, which holds data relevant to discrete parcels of land, one or more of which may constitute the legal entity of the scheduled monument. 4) The Ownership record. This forms a subordinate part of the Constraint Area record. 5) The Management Zone record. Although these are related to the Archaeological Item records, they do not necessarily match any of the other spatial zones defined as constituting a monument. A scheduled monument is a legal construct, which doesn't always reflect archaeological classifications. This construct may be multi-period and may include all or part of more than one class of monument. The Schedule Entry comprises a description of the monument, including a statement of exclusions and inclusions, and an assessment of its importance. The Schedule Entry is the official description of the scheduled site and record of its scheduling. It is analogous to a listed building's list description. It usually begins with a short uniform text, called the 'standard paragraph', derived from the Monument Class Description (MCD) or the Step 1 Report for each monument class. These texts complement and amplify the broader MCDs and outline the principal characteristics of the main archaeological items within a scheduled monument. The dataset consists of 75 tables. |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | CRDA/64/DS/1 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
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