Abbreviations
Abbreviations used in the Dorset Historic Environment Record Forward Plan 2021-2025
Abbreviation | Explanation |
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AIM | Archaeological Investigation and Mapping |
ALGAO | Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers |
BCP | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council |
CHER | Church Historic Environment Record |
CIFA | Chartered Institute for Archaeologists |
DC | Dorset Council |
EUS | Extensive Urban Survey |
FISH | Forum on Information Standards in Heritage |
HBSMR | Historic Buildings Sites & Monuments Record software package for HER databases |
HELO | Historic Environment Liaison Officer |
HER | Historic Environment Record |
HIAS | Heritage Information Access Strategy |
HLC | Historic Landscape Characterisation |
IFP | Informing the Future of the Past: national guidelines for HERs |
MIDAS | Manual and Data Standard for Monument Inventories |
NMP | National Mapping Programme |
OASIS | Online reporting of information about archaeological investigations to HERs and national bodies such as Historic England. Being replaced by HERALD which includes information on archaeological archives. |
PAS | Portable Antiquities Scheme |
RCZA | Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment |
SHINE | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England |
SMR | Sites and Monuments Record |
UAD | Urban Archaeological Database |
Historic Environment Record and HER are used throughout this document to refer variously to the Historic Environment Record database and supplementary material such as aerial photographs, and to the people – Dorset Council officers, occasional contractors and volunteers – who work with the record.
Senior Archaeologist, Promotion and Liaison
Name: Claire PinderEmail: Claire.Pinder@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
Tel: 01305 224921
Full contact details