Historic Environment Record Contact Information

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Peterborough City Sites & Monuments Record

Host Local Authority:
Peterborough City Council, Unitary Authority

Other Local Authority areas covered by HER:


Contact information for key staff:
Name Job Title Telephone Email
Ben Robinson Archaeology Officer 01733 343329 Ben.robinson@peterborough.gov.uk

Access to HER information:
Access to Online Database: No
Information on HER Services: Peterborough City Council Archaeology Service

Location:
Peterborough Historic Environment Record
Peterborough Museum
Priestgate
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire

PE1 1LF

Office National Grid Reference: TL 1897 9853

Opening Hours:
Monday-Friday 9.00am-5.00pm
1 Wednesday evening per month (5.00pm-7.30pm)
8 weekends per year - Saturday 9.00am-5pm
Sunday 12.00-4.00pm

Call in advance to ensure availability and to book an appointment.

Visitor Facilities:
Terminal for selected national online resources and local online sources in public gallery (no booking required); desk space and access to dedicated HER terminal in private office; private research room with desk space and photography stand; photocopying and scanning facilities; access to excavation archives and artefacts.

Reproduction fees and fees for commercial consultations apply. Appointments should be booked in advance.

Range of information available:
HER contains comprehensive information on local archaeology up to the post-medieval period. Selected information only (for example, industrial remains, military remains, significant historic buildings) for post-medieval and modern periods. Historic landscape character data; aerial photo interpretation plots; complete modern geo-referenced vertical aerial photo surveys (via Geographic Information System); comprehensive geo-referenced historic Ordnance Survey mapping from 1886 (via GIS); collection of vertical and oblique aerial photographs; archaeological artefact collections and archives; historic photograph collection and historic map facsimile collection; local studies library; selection of archaeological monographs and national and local journals, comprehensive grey literature library.

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