West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service

Guidance Notes for Local Archaeological Societies

The West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service as part of its objective to support voluntary organisations in the region and to improve access to the historic environment, has been producing a series of online guides aimed at helping Community Archaeology Groups with their work. The titles already online are:

• Site Location∞ PDF 93KB
• Writing your Fieldwork Report∞ PDF 42KB
• Using Old Maps∞ PDF 91KB
• Guide to Preparing for Archaeological Fieldwork∞ PDF 96KB
• Guide to interpreting historic place names in West Yorkshire∞ PDF 99KB
• Suggested Tool list for Small Scale Archaeological Excavations∞ PDF 80KB
• Looking at Old Photographs∞ PDF 95KB

WYAAS have just released an addition to this series: A Guide to making a Photographic Record of Old Buildings. The guide offers useful hints on how to prepare for your recording session, what type of cameras to use and what aspects of a building you should consider taking images of.

A Guide to making a Photographic Record of Old Buildings and all the other Guidance Notes for Local Societies can be viewed by following the link from the listing page at www.arch.wyjs.org.uk/AdvSrv/GuidanceNotes.htm∞.

We will continue to add to this material as time and resources allow.

Dave Weldrake
Education and Outreach Coordinator
West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service
01924 306809

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