roimhe heritage

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By Miguel Gonzlez.


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The western bank of river Lagan contain a wealth of historic and cultural significance. Thisis clearly evident in the landscape, which has been moulded and changed over thousand of

years of human activity.

This project is looking to study the processes of the human construction of the landscape,

examining their relationship with economic, social and cultural dynamics and characterizing

their evolution through prehistory and history. From a more general perspective, it principally

aims to discover the concept of space, and secondarily the concept of time and nature,

which guide spatial human actions and underlie the materialization of the social being in

spatial terms.

The tool to develop this study is called Historical Landscape Survey (HLS), and HLS is amean by which the landscape and analyses in order to understand that significance (need

citation). The historical environment is a term used to embrace all the historic aspect of our

environment, by they archaeological sites, historic landscapes, standing buildings, semi-

natural environments or historic land-uses such as industry, farming, defense,

communications and even tourism. It is the environment created over thousands of years

through the cultural and economic activities of the people who settled on the land. The

historic environment is not just about the past, however, it is about the present and even the

future.

The Cultural Heritage is also an important educational resource and can even generateincome and employment through tourism and improve the regeneration of our community.

In the other hand of this project is to integrate a series of different approaches toward cultural

heritage from disciplines that are not linked to the interpretation and management of heritage

elements. The object of this strategy is cultural heritage itself as a social reality, in its

different dimensions within a context marked by the post-industrial society and the transition

toward a knowledge-based socio economy.

Archaeology is a key tool for recording and analyzing the historic landscape. An HLS

therefore seeks to use archaeological techniques of field recording and documentaryresearch to trace the evolution of the landscape and identify significant features within. It is

therefore possible to regard standing buildings and the uses of the land around it, as tell us

of how the landscape was used by the people in the past. It also means that Archaeology

knows no time restriction and is therefore as relevant to the study of 20th century Industrial

buildings or wartime defaces as it is to Bronze age barrows or Neolithic farms.

This characterization of the past landscapes is an important new way of managing changes

in the historic landscape and the heritage itself, also it is a primary vehicle for achieving the

goals and aspirations of the European Landscape Convention (

www.convention.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/176.htm) also known as the Florence

Convention, that promotes the protection, management and planning of European

Landscapes and organizes European co-operation on landscape issues.

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But also, this project Roimhe is across-community archaeological project. This means

archaeology by the people for the people, it is empowered by the reality that within a locality

there will be many people interested and exited by the material evidence for the past, which

lies beneath their streets, houses, gardens, workplaces and is scattered across fields and

woods.

This project want to give the local people, whatever their age, skill level, family and work

obligations the chance to participate in real archaeology. This involves not just practical

investigations -excavations, surveying, field walking and so on- but also doing detailed

recording, identifying finds, developing specialist knowledge and carrying out documentary

investigations. Most enjoyable of all, it involves working in a team to define research

objectives in the first place, offer interpretations of findings and disseminate these to a wider

audience through displays, workshops and a variety of publications.

LOVE DATING?LOVE ARCHAEOLOGY


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Archaeological sites 194

Industrial heritage sites

Defense heritage sites

Scheduled areas

Historic Parks and Gardens

Listed buildings

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645Heritage points

Prehistory Echr Medieval Post-medieval Modern Uncertain

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FACTS


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With over 400 Heritage points, the western side ofthe river Lagan of Belfast, is a very important

accumulation of cultural landscape, from over 8,500

years ago and we continue changing it.

early settlers Prehistoric landscape


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Medieval landscape

Turbulent times: Early Christian landscape


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The growth of the city: Modern landscape

the birth of the city: Post-Medieval landscape


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Unknow landscape: Uncertain sitesUnknow landscape: Uncertain sites

Industrial landscapeIndustrial landscape


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strategies

1.- Cultural Heritage Management1.1.- Develop tools&protocols to help the authorities to keep andlook after of the heritage

Create the Map of risks of Cultural Heritage1.2.- Develop a website with access of project public databases

Explanation of the project Marketing Advertaising of news and events Social Networks

1.3.- Develop activities to promote the conservation of ourHeritage

Program of Interpretation of the Heritage: leafles andpublications.

2.- Education2.1 Workshops

Meet the ancestors: experimental archaeology for childrenAdopt a monument in dangerStreetScapeArchaeological survival

2.2.- Training courses2.2.1.- TeachersThe Heritage like educational tool in the classroom

2.2.2.- General publicHow to survive in the prehistory: Experimental archaeologyRangers an guides of Cultural Heritage

3.- Economic3.1.- Develop a touristic routebased in the Heritage

Archaeological tourThe linen tour: industrial heritage

3.2.- Develop Jobs&Business opportunities

4.- SocialCreate family events based in our HeritageCelebrate International Archaeological DaysExhibitions about HeritageConferences and public lecturesDevelop a magazine about the project and Heritage in NI


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Rath5th - 9th century AD


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enclosure16th - 19th century AD


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Megalithic

monument16th - 19th century AD


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Roimhe is a new tool to manage our heritage

and develop their full potential, educational,recreational, touristic and also econonomic.

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