Guidelines for the recording of archaeological materials

The aim of this project was to develop a Toolkit that provides information and resources for recording finds that will support and enhance the Toolkit for Specialist Reporting. The newly developed Toolkit provides guidance for collecting the data that is essential for successful reporting. The review of finds reports in 2017 (Review of the Standard of Reporting on Archaeological Artefacts in England) highlighted substantial variation in the data collected from finds assemblages and this new Toolkit promotes a consistent method that will benefit project management as well as analysis and reporting. The Toolkit is not intended to form a detailed guide to the recording of categories of finds at analysis stage but rather a Toolkit that provides information and resources for recording finds prior to that, to enable communication with specialists and to provide general data on the character and size of assemblages.

The completed Toolkit can be found here