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

Joined March 2014
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Interesting symposium in Feb 2018 - 'New Light on Old Metal' nms.ac.uk/metal

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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.
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Aberdeen City Council is now being covered by Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service. Follow @diggermann17 for updates.
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From previous year stats it appears that on average 6% of all planning applications in Scotland need some form of archaeological mitigation
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Great meeting with The Archaeology Forum yesterday as members agree top priority is the protection of council archaeology services from cuts
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
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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!
ALGAO Scotland retweeted
We also need to work more with family history researchers in telling the human stories of our #historic #kirkyards to help their protection
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ALGAO Scotland retweeted
Key to protecting our #historic carved stones is working in partnership across entire sector and beyond #pubarch
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ALGAO Scotland retweeted
Spent great day working on how to preserve our #historic carved stones at inspirational Old Govan Church #pubarch
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#pubarch RT @diggermann17 last year over 12,000 unique users from 108 different countries used our online databases, viewing 93,000 pages
ALGAO Scotland retweeted
Very happy to hand over the signed and sealed legal text today for another 3-years of archaeology service provision to #MorayCouncil
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Great to meet with the first Board of the new Historic Environment Scotland this morning - read my blog here ow.ly/LR5ER

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As always the biggest issue is how to balance preserving our heritage with the demands of new development. Compromise is always possible!
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Spent today with @chh_bck and @welovehistory training our #Aberdeenshire planning colleagues on how to deal with the historic environment
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Consultation on Scotland's draft Archaeology Strategy is now available at bit.ly/1FcYJMR Deadline is 9th June. Your views count!

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ALGAO Scotland retweeted
Can confirm we will continue to provide a temp archaeology service to Aberdeen City Council for another 3 months until long term is sorted.
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#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
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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 looking forward to hearing you at Scottish Environment Week @CaraJones82 @AdoptaMonument @CoastArch @Natures_Voice
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