{"id":5214,"date":"2024-07-25T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/famearchaeology.co.uk\/?page_id=5214"},"modified":"2024-07-25T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:18:12","slug":"advocacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/famearchaeology.co.uk\/what-we-do\/advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FAME advocates on behalf of its members to improve and support development-led archaeology in the UK and Ireland. An area of particular note that we have worked on recently has been archaeological archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archives<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Archaeological archives are frequently being held in temporary storage because too few museums or local authority stores have space, curators or requirement to accept them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAME undertook an extensive survey in 2012 of the problem for long-term storage of archives, and found there were 9000 homeless archives that had not been accepted by a museum or other repository, costing around \u00a3300,000 to store annually. The report can be downloaded here \u2013 FAME Report on Archaeological Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAME are working with our partners across the heritage sector to help solve the archives problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n