ALGAO Scotland

ALGAO:Scotland represents the views of Local Authority and National Park archaeological services in Scotland and is part of the UK-wide organisation, ALGAO:UK

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Interesting symposium in Feb 2018 - 'New Light on Old Metal'
https://t.co/29Ly3wQnTk

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Scotland survey shows there are 21.6 archaeologists in the 32 local authorities in 2016, down from 23.3 last year, and the 32 10-years ago.

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Aberdeen City Council is now being covered by Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service. Follow @diggermann17 for updates.

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

From previous year stats it appears that on average 6% of all planning applications in Scotland need some form of archaeological mitigation

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Great meeting with The Archaeology Forum yesterday as members agree top priority is the protection of council archaeology services from cuts

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Survey shows there are 23.3 archaeologists in the 32 Scottish local authorities. Last year there were 24.6 of us. Small numbers, huge impact

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Met today with COSLA discussing the future of heritage in local authorities. We need to be better at demonstrating the value of what we do!

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

We also need to work more with family history researchers in telling the human stories of our #historic #kirkyards to help their protection

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

Key to protecting our #historic carved stones is working in partnership across entire sector and beyond #pubarch

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

Spent great day working on how to preserve our #historic carved stones at inspirational Old Govan Church #pubarch

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

#pubarch RT @diggermann17 last year over 12,000 unique users from 108 different countries used our online databases, viewing 93,000 pages

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

Very happy to hand over the signed and sealed legal text today for another 3-years of archaeology service provision to #MorayCouncil

[Fiona Hyslop @FionaHyslop]

Great to meet with the first Board of the new Historic Environment Scotland this morning - read my blog here http://t.co/W7R1iUfeVo

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

As always the biggest issue is how to balance preserving our heritage with the demands of new development. Compromise is always possible!

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

Spent today with @chh_bck and @welovehistory training our #Aberdeenshire planning colleagues on how to deal with the historic environment

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Consultation on Scotland's draft Archaeology Strategy is now available at http://t.co/DflGNwwcd0 Deadline is 9th June. Your views count!

[Bruce Mann @diggermann17]

Can confirm we will continue to provide a temp archaeology service to Aberdeen City Council for another 3 months until long term is sorted.

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

#OpenAccess is the next big issue for the sector to crack. We're working hard on how to help deliver this and support @scotgov in their aims

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

Very useful UK Exec meeting yesterday in Birmingham. Just shows what we can learn from each other's experiences in Wales, Scotland & England

[ALGAO Scotland @ALGAOScotland]

ALGAO Scotland looking forward to hearing you at Scottish Environment Week @CaraJones82 @AdoptaMonument @CoastArch @Natures_Voice