 I'm Christian, I'm Deputy Head of Archeology at Historic Environment Scotland, and Rebecca Jones sends her apologies. Unfortunately the Llemes Congress clashed with this, and the Romans have won in this particular case. So as I say, I'm Deputy Head of Archeology at Historic Environment Scotland. That sounds like quite a grand typal, and it sounds like I should be kind of deputy boss of every archaeologist in Historic Environment Scotland. Unfortunately that's not the case, but it reflects the fact that I've got a role in trying to pull all the archaeologists in HES forward in the same direction. And that direction is Scotland's archaeology strategy, which is what I'm going to talk about today. So the archaeology strategy was developed following public consultation in 2015, taking its lead from our place in time, which was Scotland's first ever strategy for the historic environment, and going further, which is the national strategy for museums and galleries in Scotland. It brings together organisations in the sector which are key to kind of pulling the archaeology in Scotland in the same direction, and that direction should involve essentially promoting best practice in Scotland, working together to achieve this, promoting professionalism, the sharing of resources, greater collaboration, better communication, embedded archaeological education, and advocating skill building and innovation throughout our sector. So in this paper I'm going to reflect a little bit on our progress to date, and any issues which we've encountered which I'll approach delicately, because I'm aware that there are other individuals in the room who are also working on Scotland's archaeology strategy, and basically look at the progress that we've made so far, and also the ways in which we've tried to acknowledge the multifaceted nature of the discipline, and address underrepresented areas and underrepresented parts of that discipline as a national level. Translating the commendable aims of the archaeology strategy into a high level document, well, from a high level document into realistic deliverables which can be resourced and are sustainable, has been challenging, also dealing with the fragile bunker mentality which can exist in certain areas, and also managing our expectations. So Scotland launched its first ever archaeology strategy in 2015, which was accompanied by a delivery plan which came along approximately a year later, and we're with a number of other organisations leading on a range of activities which aim to meet the aims of expectations of the strategy. So the strategy has five aims, and these are delivering archaeology, which is led principally by Historic Environment Scotland, enhancing understanding, which has been led by the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, caring and protecting, which is led by Algeo, Association of Local Government Archaeologists in Scotland, and also the National Museum of Scotland, encouraging greater engagement, which has been led by Archaeology Scotland, and innovation in skills which has been led principally by Cifa. So, as I mentioned, Historic Environment Scotland is leading on aim one, and has a key role in the delivery of all five areas, and also providing funding to support the delivery of the strategy. So aim one states that through communication and innovative practice, we will foster a culture of collaboration and ambition, locally, nationally and internationally. At the heart of the strategy, necessarily, is a desire for collaboration across the sector, and closer working relations. Basically, if archaeology is truly for everybody, then its aims must be determined collaboratively, and we should all be pulling together in the same direction. So that's a little bit more about the various aims of each bit, the strategy that we're looking at. So I'm trying to skip forward ever so slightly, because I don't want to miss out on five, as I say, Cifa in the room. So I'll be apologising yet again if that's the case. So moving on just briefly onto who Historic Environment Scotland are. We are the lead public body for the Historic Environment in Scotland. We were also established in 2015. We are given a grant from the government every year, which enabled us to carry out our activities, in line with our corporate plan, together with income from charging and revenue through our properties and care. As part of our agreement with the Government, Historic Environment Scotland supports the Historic Environment through the provision of £14.5 million in grants every year, out of this £1.4 million is set aside for archaeology. Originally set up to deal with rescue archaeology, the archaeology programme, which is what our archaeology grant scheme is known as, essentially, the rescue remains a key element of that. We're also using it to deliver the five aims of the archaeology strategy and to prioritise decision making around funding. So our programme is oversubscribed annually every single year, so we help to use the archaeology strategy in order to determine where our resources are going to go. So that's just a little bit more about our grant funding in various different places it goes to. So the crux of aim one, as I mentioned, is to ensure that archaeological practice in Scotland works for everybody, is open to everyone, and is visible to everybody. Here I will outline some of the key actions from our delivery plan and what we've put in place so far and some of the issues which we have encountered. So this is one area which we've progressed reasonably far on to date. We are looking to produce a source of information for postgraduate students and others on projects which have remained unfinished across the sector in Scotland and for a variety of reasons have been left uncomplete and need to be written up or possibly readdressed. So this aim is all about making information available from projects which, as I say, for whatever reason haven't been completed, maybe the excavator has died or perhaps funding has run out, they haven't been properly resourced through to the end. Historic Environment Scotland has its own legacy list and these are projects which Historic Scotland and its predecessor bodies, which are our predecessor bodies, resourced and didn't quite take through to completion for whatever reason and also there's obviously many more projects across Scotland which have not been completed. So this aim is all about making information available from these projects and enlivening them with new thought and new method. We've begun this process by looking at Historic Environment Scotland's own legacy list and projects which have not yet been completed by ourselves and the first region to be tackled is the Highland Local Authority Area, which is an area roughly the size of Wales. The reason why we've gone with this area in the first instance is because it's currently in the process of setting up a regional research framework through ARCH, which are a community archaeology group, and they're looking to identify research questions and gaps. So allied to this aim is a survey which we've opened up to get people's opinions on what sort of portal or online access point they might like to look at in the future where possibly information on other incomplete projects alongside our own might possibly be accessed. So the survey is actually open now and when I get to the end of this presentation there'll be a web address for the archaeology strategy and if anybody wants to go in and put their opinions in that will be much appreciated. So basically we've put up a short list online for the time being of projects which we think are quick hits, but through consultation with the rest of the sector, moving in tandem hopefully with the regional research framework so I've hoping to add to that list gradually as we've communicated with some of the individuals who are involved in these projects. A little bit too far ahead. Right, another area we're going to be looking at in the near future is to commission a review of the national approach to archaeological protection and recording to include comparisons with other countries and recommendations for improvements. Now this is a slightly grand aim, well it sounds fairly grand, it's been a difficult part of aim one for us to tackle. Essentially we're intending to look through a series of workshops at some areas where essentially where archaeology is falling slightly short and archaeology practice is falling slightly short in Scotland gaps in the, where things aren't quite provisioned correctly. So our intention is that this objective will be filled as I say by a series of workshops which will be run jointly by Cifa, FAME and Argeo Scotland with support from Historic Environment Scotland to allow representatives across the sector to look and see how archaeology is funded and what is being lost through loopholes. However there is potential for this particular area, a particular review to cause some conflict of interest. Obviously there are people working within the archaeology strategy whose current jobs are kind of dependent on the way that archaeology is funded and structured in Scotland as it stands at the moment so it's something we're having to approach quite carefully and as I say that aim is still a work in progress. So moving on to aim two. So aim two enhancing understanding. I want to touch briefly on each one of the other aims if I've got time to do so. We're just mainly looking at the areas which require the most kind of cross-set to collaboration and collaborative working. So aim two of Scotland's archaeology strategy aims to make knowledge discoverable and accessible and furable and reusable now for future generations. Again a very kind of high level aim but translated down into delivery plan. This currently involves the creation of our local and regional research framework which has been led by the Society of Antipres of Scotland. So this is a really good way of kind of exploring that we've managed to kind of pull together a collaboration across the sector in Scotland because essentially when the same was initially set up we kind of looked at what areas of the country already have regional research frameworks looking at what historically them had already done and we've ended up with a kind of a patchwork of different organisations picking up regional research frameworks and leading on these across Scotland. So as I already mentioned a Highland Archaeological Research Frame which was kicked off this year that's been led by a community group the one in Argyllun but which has just completed that's been led by a museum. There's one there, the South East Scotland Regional Research Frame which has been led by a local authority and then the Highlands Regional Research Frame but rather it's been led by a university. So essentially different groups are picking up different regional research frameworks depending on which of those groups has the strongest interest in that part of Scotland and the Society of Antipres are kind of forming a pivoting body in between all of them which allows them to all speak together and actually reflect the same model because all of it is modelled on Scotland's existing national research framework which is SCARF. So that's just some of the regional research framework which is currently kicked off under our Archaeology Strategy. Sorry, I will rush ahead so I did worry I wasn't going to get to aim five. So just looking briefly at aim three aim three, caring and protecting. This is all about how we look after the historic environment in a very practical sense. The area that I was going to focus on here was looking at the museums and archives working group which has just been set up. So this is looking at storage capacity, disposal practice, conservation and dissemination in museums and the working group for this actually was set up only a few months ago and this is representatives from across the museum sector in Scotland all got together in a room in the Hollywood Park and they're now talking about the various challenges which the museum sector faces. So they're looking to address those over the course of the next few years. A slight issue for us in funding this one because as I say the Archaeology Programme is providing a lot of the funding for this project because Historic Environment Scotland cannot fund other parts of the Scottish Government because NMS have got quite a major role in this in the National Museum of Scotland. We're having to look at alternative ways to resource that we can't provide funding directly to NMS. Some nice museum related images. Aim for being led by Archaeology Scotland. So Archaeology Scotland are looking to try and get more archaeology into education in general and kind of integrate it into the curriculum in Scotland more completely. So as part of this there's been an archaeology learning working group which has been set up which brings together archaeologists working in education and also educational professionals as well to try and talk about the different ways in which we might kind of integrate archaeology more formally into the education system that is currently the case. And actually this is some work that we ourselves are doing at the moment. This is the Go Roman soldier thing, teaching path and handling bot. She can tell that Becky Jones is handling putting these slides together. But essentially we've also been looking through the other half of my team and some interesting ways that we can promote individual sites. So this is an app for the Antonine Wall which is currently available. You can download this from Google Play or from the iStore as well which actually tries to sort of make the Antonine Wall in Scotland which is one of our world heritage sites much more interactive. And then moving very quickly onto Aim 5. So I jumped dramatically ahead in my... So Aim 5 is all about skills and training as well as supporting innovation in everything from archaeological project management through to the application of cutting-edge scientific techniques. So whilst there was a desire to embed innovation in science across the sector as a whole of the strategy's five aims, we are conscious that we wanted to state as a clear aim to ensure that this is something very tangible and that we have very definite objectives against this to deliver. His serve environment Scotland's contribution to this aim is the appointment of our first ever archaeological science manager somewhere in order to ensure that archaeological science is embedded within our own practice and actually start to promote new innovations across the archaeological sector in Scotland as a whole, working very closely with historical and science advisers. So alongside this, I'm probably well over my two minutes now on that yet. OK, right, I'll run ahead. If anybody wishes to discuss the fantastic work that Seafore are doing on skills and innovation particularly in relation to archaeological apprenticeships I would encourage them to novel Kate's and Pete's in the future, but I will jump dramatically ahead. Just to say that as part of our archaeology strategy and working with the four other lead bodies we do have the social media presence as well and if anybody is tweeting out from this talk today please use the hashtag, it's got our abstract because that's what we're trying to use to kind of integrate all of our activities together under one heading on Twitter. And this is our web address at the top where you can get more information and I think that's about everything I've got to say. Thank you.