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BREOCHLOCHCommunity Archaeology & Heritage Consultancy

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The project ROIMHE is a cultural and socialregeneration archaeological project, which looking toinspire the community to get involve in Archaeologyand Local Heritage within West Belfast area.

Heritage by the people for the people. It is empoweredby the reality that within a locality there will bemany people interested and excited by the materialevidence for the past, which lies beneath their streets,houses, gardens, workplaces and is scattered acrossfields and woods.

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Cultural Heritage is the footprint of Memory and Oblivion. As footprint iscomprised of all of the products of human activity and their remains, bothintentional and unintentional, tangible and intangible, which representhistorical and social processes, which derive their meaning from them. Thisdefinition includes objects and ideas that are socially valorized as heritageelements, either within the context in which they are created or in later context,as much as objects and remains that have the potential to achieve thisvalorization at a later stage due to their representative nature. CulturalHeritage confronts us today with important issues, mostly in the present situationof cultural crisis we live now: legitimization, authority, individual, community,the natural, the domestic, tradition, innovation, science, participation, specialists,public..

Breochloch has addressed the importance of Cultural Heritage and has created anew research project devoted to its interdisciplinary study, to analyse how

Cultural Heritage and its values are produced, managed and socialized, as well asthe material elements and social practices that integrate it. It will do mostlyfrom the perspective of Archaeology, a discipline well situated to cope withHeritage because of its understanding of materiality, spatiality and temporalityof social realities.

ROIMHE is a cultural and social regeneration project based in a communityarchaeological project, which's looking to inspire the community to get involved inArchaeology and Local Heritage within Western side of Greater Belfast.

The author of this document beleive firmly in one archaeology by the people for

the people, motto of most of the community archaeological projects. This projectwants to give the local people, whatever their age, skill level, family and workobligations the chance to participate in real archaeology. This involves not justpractical investigations -excavations, surveying, field walking and so on- butalso doing detailed recording, identifying finds, developing specialist knowledgeand carrying out documentary investigations. Most enjoyable of all, it involvesworking in a team to define research objectives in the first place, offerinterpretations of findings and disseminate these to a wider audience throughdisplays, workshops and a variety of publications.

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Archaeological sites

Industrial Heritage sites

Defense Heritage Site

Scheduled areas

Historic Parks & Gardens

Listed Buildings

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AIMS TARGETS&

From the outset it was planned that ROIMHE would address a numberof issues, with particular attention being paid to the followingspecific objectives:

Provide a sense of identity and community workingtogether, based in our Heritage.

To develop programs and strategies for cross communitywork. To give a chance to learn more and appreciate new

experiences from active participation -especially schoolsand disavantaged groups- in uncovering the History ofBelfast.

To develop tools for Heritage management.

These targets were to be achieved by: To develop an archaeological research on the premise to

create options to help in the regeneration of thecommunities in the Western side of Belfast.

To develop a turistic product based in the CulturalHeritage.

And create an educational program based in the CulturalHeritage.

To develop a range of cross-community activities.



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PROGRAMS

Archaeological programAIMSTo develop a Landscape Heritage Survey, based in the theoreticalframe of Archaeology of Perception .

OBJECTIVES To provide a detailed landscape History and Characterizationof the area. To involve the local community in their Heritage. To increase the physical and intellectual access to theHeritage.ACTIVITIES Field survey based in the conditions survey Camsar criteria. Building recording. Assesments of the significance archaeological and historicalevidences. Creation of an archive of material, including maps, documentsand photos. Elaboration of SMR site gazzeter. Field Survey Training.



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Cultural HeritageManagement programAIMS

To promote the knowledge and conservation of our HeritageOBJECTIVES To develop activities and events to promote the knowledge andconservation of our Heritage.ACTIVITIES

Discovering West Belfast-Website. The philisophy behind the Roimhe Website is create a flexible

and sustaineble website to be mantained beyond the end of theproject. Driven by technologies such as XML, it should allowusers to create contents as long as they have log in. It is notdependent of any technical languages and put the power tocreating contents in the hands of the users (such as webpages,interactive maps, upload imager or documents and even an eventscalendar). Contents of the website will ranges from the geology,archaeology, history and archives of West Belfast. It also

include profiles and content about groups ans societiesdetailing their activities and how to join them.

Elaborate an interactive Map of Heritage at Risk. Developing tools to protect the past.

Desing and develop an Interpretation of the Heritage program.



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Heritage Education

programAIMS

To promote the understanding, study and awareness of the Heritage

OBJECTIVES

To deliver educational benefits to an audience ranging fromearly years top to Higher Education and long life learningthrough the provision of fact sheets and educational resources.

To provide high quality information to the existing Heritageaudience, as well reaching new and wider community, usingatractive formats in accesible locations.

ACTIVITIES

Archaeological workshops based in local Heritage Desing and create educational material for all school in thearea, in collaboration with Universidad de Cordoba (Spain).

Training courses: TeachersThe Heritage as educational tool in the classroom. General public. Rangers and Guides of Cultural Heritage



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Regeneration programAIMSTo promote the social and economic use of the HeritageOBJECTIVES To develop and support new initiatives to create business andjobs in the Heritage sector To provide activities and events to revalorize the HeritageACTIVITIES Archaeological Work Experience

To provide a fulfilling and beneficial archaeological workexperience placement for secondary schools aged 14 to 18years old.

To encourage young people to work as a team, to allocatetasks and complete a project to a tight deadline.

Desing a develop an Heritage Trail. In aims to promote publicaccess to and awarenwaa od historic sites in West Belfast.

Non guided heritage trial for tourist. Guided Heritage Trial. Annual program of guided walks

around hictoric places. Publication of Heritage Trials and information about the isetto visit in local magazines and Roimhe website.



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