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To select a thesaurus, click on one of the titles listed below.
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| Monument Types |
Types of monuments relating to the built and buried heritage in England.
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Archaeological Objects |
Physical evidence, usually portable, resulting from past human activity or environmental remains
that can be recovered from archaeological fieldwork.
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| Building Materials
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Construction materials for monuments relating to the built and buried heritage. |
| Defence of Britain
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Originally developed for the Defence of Britain Project. Types of defensive monuments relating to the 20th century in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This thesaurus is no longer actively updated. |
| Components |
Elements of a monument relating to the built or buried heritage.
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| Maritime Place Names
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Maritime ports, countries and bodies of water from and to which ships may have sailed or been registered.
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| Maritime Craft Types
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Craft types which survive as wrecks for English Heritage’s maritime record and can be used to describe types of ship.
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| Maritime Cargo
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Types of cargo being carried by ships when they went down.
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| Evidence Thesaurus
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Terminology covering the existing physical remains of a monument,
or the means by which a monument has been identified where no physical remains exist
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| Archaeological Sciences
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Used for recording the techniques, recovery methods and
materials associated with the archaeological sciences.
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| Event Types
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A development of the ALGAO events wordlist.
The thesaurus is an indexing tool to be used for recording archaeological and architectural investigative,
data collection exercises; from intrusive interventions into the resource to non damaging survey events.
Introduction
Appendices
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| Resource Description Thesaurus
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Terminology for the description of archive type and format,
jointly developed by The National Trust and English Heritage.
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| Historic Aircraft Types |
An indexing tool to aid the recording of aircraft remains and crash sites, listing aircraft types by form, function and manufacturer.
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| FISH |
Link to the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage, and the INSCRIPTION terminology standard. |
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