I've e-mailed Gary about this in more detail off-list, but
I'll note for the broader archaeological community that
recent work has indeed exploited the Heritage Victoria
collections for their research potential.  At Heritage
Victoria's request, I recently generated a ceramics
reference collection out of selected collections for the use
of HV staff and consultants, and my forthcoming book
(apologies for the self-promotion) _An Archaeological Guide
to British Ceramics in Australia, 1788-1901_ draws heavily
on the HV collections for its images.

Alasdair Brooks


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[log in to unmask] Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:50:16 +1000
From: Gary Vines <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The finds problem

When I get the chance, I nag Heritage Victoria about putting
out a guide to artefacts based on the mterial lodged under
their bond system. I have always felt this would be more
useful than the bottle (and other) collectors guides.

there seems to be a slowly growing acceptance of adding
fairly basis analysis on to the end of the salvage
escavation projects, so somethig like dveloper funded
artefact research seems the next logical step.

I also thought Susan Lawrence had a couple of students doing
somethig of this sort.

Gary V



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