Archaeological Volunteering – Not Just Getting Dirty

Volunteer Steve Gilligan working on the Sites and Monuments Record

Volunteer Steve Gilligan working on the
Sites and Monuments Record

To help us manage our archaeological sites we maintain a Sites and Monuments Record. This is a database containing basic information about the location, type, status and, most importantly, the condition of the monuments in our care. Keeping it up to date is a painstaking task. I am fortunate enough to have a willing volunteer to help. With past experience in both archaeology and computing Steve has, with a little help, become proficient in working the database and is ploughing his way through the backlog of information to be added. Every now and then he also helps out by going out onto the hills to carry out a field check of monuments where we are missing information.

 More on volunteering for the National Trust can be found at: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/

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