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Identifying and protecting historic landscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Timothy Darvill,
Christopher Gerrard and
Bill Startin
Timothy Darvill
Affiliation:
Department of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, England
Christopher Gerrard
Affiliation:
Department of History & Archaeology, King Alfred's College, Winchester SO22 4NR, England
Bill Startin
Affiliation:
Monuments Protection Programme, Room 225, English Heritage, Fortress House, 23 Savile Row, London W1X 2HE, England
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Abstract

Six years ago, Darvill and colleagues reported (ANTIQUITY 61: 393–408) on the Monuments Protection Programme, a new English initiative to build, from a century of haphazard acts of site protection, a set of balanced judgements and priorities by which to recognize ancient places that are more precious, genuinely of a national importance. The Programme, they tell ANTIQUITY, has now completed the first-stage review of information in local sites and monuments records and is proceeding with the identification of nationally important monuments in every English county. This further paper reports on how the Monuments Protection Programme is addressing landscapes, as distinct from ‘spot sites’ with clear limits, where the matters of defining a ‘relict cultural landscape’ and judging relative value are harder.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993, pp. 563 - 574
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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