Documenting the Cultural Heritage: the standards

	Standards in Practice: Greenwich
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Sample Record 2:
Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites
and Monuments

Greenwich Park is a medieval deer park created in 1433. It subsequently became a royal park, associated with the Tudor palace of Placentia. The Park was redesigned in the 1660s as a formal landscape to accompany a proposed new royal palace following the Restoration of King Charles II. The site incorporates evidence of earlier settlement, including a Roman temple site and an Anglo-Saxon barrow cemetery. This record documents the medieval deer park of 1433, although it contains a cross reference to a record of the Anglo-Saxon Barrow cemetery (see 2.1.5.2).

2.1	Name and References	610514
2.1.1	Reference Number
2.1.2	Name of Monument or Site	Greenwich Park
2.1.3	Date of Compilation and Date of Last Update
2.1.3.1	Date of Compilation	1998-01-25
2.1.3.2	Date of Last Update	1998-03-13
2.1.4	Originator of Reference	Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
2.1.5	Cross Reference to Related Records of Monuments or Sites
2.1.5.1	Reference Number	404328; 610612
2.1.5.2	Qualifier of Relationship	Contains Anglo-Saxon Barrows; Related to the Queen's House
2.1.5.3	Originator of Reference	Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
2.1.6	Cross Reference to Archaeological Collections and Artefacts
2.1.7	Cross Reference to Documentation
2.1.7.1	Reference Number	910061
2.1.7.2	Type of Documentation/Archive	Unpublished Text, Graphic, Photographic
2.1.7.3	Originator of Reference	Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
2.1.8	Cross Reference to Archaeological Events
2.1.8.1	Reference Number	1012515
2.1.8.2	Type of Event	Survey
2.1.8.3	Start Date of Recording Event	1993-09
2.1.8.4	End Date of Recording Event	1994-02
2.1.8.5	Originator of Reference	Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
2.2	Location
2.2.1	Administrative Location
2.2.1.1	Country or Nation	United Kingdom
2.2.1.2	Geo-political Unit	England
2.2.1.3	Administrative Sub-division	London Borough of Greenwich
2.2.2	Site Location
2.2.2.1	Description of Location	On the south bank of the River Thames, seven miles south-east of central London
2.2.3	Address
2.2.3.1	Name for Address Purposes	Greenwich Park
2.2.3.2	Number in the Street/Road
2.2.3.3	Name of Street/Road
2.2.3.4	Locality	Greenwich
2.2.3.5	Town or City	London
2.2.3.6	Postal Code	SE10 8QY
2.2.4	Cadastral Reference/Land Unit
2.2.5	Cartographic Reference
2.2.5.1	Cartographic Identifier
2.2.5.2	Spatial Referencing System	Ordnance Survey
2.2.5.3	Topology	P [point]
2.2.5.4	Qualifier Centre
2.2.5.5	Sequence Number
2.2.5.6	Z Coordinate
2.2.5.7	X Coordinate	5390
2.2.5.8	Y Coordinate	1770
2.3	Type
2.3.1	Monument or Site Type	Deer Park
2.3.2	Monument or Site Category	Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
2.4	Dating
2.4.1	Cultural Period
2.4.1.1	Cultural Period	Medieval
2.4.2	Century
2.4.2.1	Century	15th century
2.4.3	Date Range
2.4.3.1	From Date	1433
2.4.3.2	To Date	1540
2.4.4	Scientific and Absolute Dates
2.4.4.1	Date
2.4.4.2	Method
2.5	Physical Condition	Intact
2.5.1	Condition
2.5.2	Date Condition Assessed	1994-02
2.6	Designation/Protection Status

2.6.1	Type of Designation or Protection	2.6.2	Date of Designation or Protection
	1. Register of Parks and Gardens — Grade I		January 1988
	2. World Heritage Site		4th December 1997

2.6.3	Reference Number	2.6.4	Originator of Reference
	1. —		English Heritage
	2. —		UNESCO

2.7

Archaeological Summary

Greenwich Park is a medieval deer park created by Duke Humphrey of Gloucester in 1433 to complement his residence on the south bank of the River Thames. It subsequently became a royal park, associated with the Tudor palace of Placentia. It incorporates evidence of earlier settlement, including a Roman temple site and an Anglo-Saxon barrow cemetery. The Park was redesigned in the 1660s as a formal landscape to the south of the Queen's House, to accompany a proposed new royal palace following the Restoration of King Charles II. It now has the character of an urban, public park.