Where to Draw the Line
Scheduled Ancient Monuments and Historic Landscape Characterisation in Wales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12590809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oscar Davis (0000-0003-2655-2789, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Issue | 29 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Internet Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-5387 • E-ISSN: 1363-5387 |
| Publisher | Council for British Archaeology (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.11141/ia.29.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2330200881 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article considers some of the ways that monuments and sites that receive statutory protection (Scheduled Ancient Monuments) are recorded in Wales and in particular examines some of the limitations of the current UK legislation designed to protect monuments and sites. It explores the concept of the type-site and considers the implications of using monument or site typologies to classify and characterise the past. The purpose of scheduling is to prevent unwarranted development at defined locations. This makes sense at a site level, but is a nonsense for large areas. It is suggested that in order to protect the historic environment in the 21st century we require an approach that looks beyond the rigid boundaries of defined sites and considers inhabitation of whole landscapes. In particular, this article considers the rolling out of a uniform landscape characterisation process in Wales as a first step for protecting landscapes. Principally the examples used in this article will be drawn from Wales, but the same concerns are likely to be paralleled in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Ancient history · Archaeology · Civil engineering · Geography · Landscape archaeology · Landscape design · Landscape history · Line (geometry · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Historical Studies of British Isles · History
Iron Age Communities in Britain
The Belgae of Gaul and Britain
The Early Iron Age Site at Micklemoor Hill West Harling, Norfolk, and its Pottery
Excavations at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire
Cultural Grouping within the British pre-Roman Iron Age
Late Bronze Age Settlement on Itford Hill, Sussex
The Excavation of Maiden Castle, Dorset. First Interim Report
Excavations at Owslebury, Hants
Excavations at Owslebury, Hants
XIV.— On a Late-Celtic Urn-Field at Aylesford, Kent, and on the Gaulish, Illyro-Italic, and Classical Connexions of the Forms of Pottery and Bronze-work there discovered
Archaeology and modern times
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |