National Importance and Marine Assets – the Goodwin Sands and Farne Islands Case Studies
Author(s): Wessex Archaeology
Commissioned as one of the National Importance Programme Pilot Projects in 2014, this study reviews the criteria and methodologies used to map the boundaries of large marine landscape-scale sites containing dispersed, overlapping and multi-period marine heritage assets, and to identify and define the boundaries of individual heritage assets within these. It makes recommendations as to how such mapping should be approached in the future, and considers whether, and when, it may be appropriate to identify such sites as being of national importance on the basis of this mapping. The applicability of criteria from the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act are considered, as is how heritage assets which lack the ‘structure’ required to schedule them have previously been dealt with. Recommendations over both criteria and methodology are presented in in ‘toolkit’ format.
- Report Number:
- 10/2024
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 47
