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A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; Historic England takes the leading role in identifying such sites.
The Fenland Survey was an intense archaeological survey of the Fenlands of England that took place between 1982 and 1989. During the survey, approximately 250,000 hectares (615,000 acres ) of land was fieldwalked by four archaeologists in the interest of creating a comprehensive overview of the sites within the area.
The planning conditions associated with the consent granted by Havering Borough Council to the quarry company included a requirement for an archaeological survey of the site. This requirement had been included at the suggestion of Historic England 's Greater London Archaeology Advisory Service, whose initial fieldwork had found the site had ...
A survey of Attingham Park in Shropshire also revealed evidence about the city of Wroxeter, Iron Age farmsteads and a Second World War airfield. Archaeological survey of land to aid nature ...
Industrial archaeological sites in England (4 C, 58 P) Archaeological sites on the Isle of Wight (1 C, 3 P) K. Archaeological sites in Kent (6 C, 41 P) L.
Ground penetrating radar is a tool used in archaeological field surveys. In archaeology, survey or field survey is a type of field research by which archaeologists (often landscape archaeologists) search for archaeological sites and collect information about the location, distribution and organization of past human cultures across a large area (e.g. typically in excess of one hectare, and ...
The archaeological survey of the area considered the bones were not there due to natural death, but more likely cast into the mere after human predation. [39] Studies of the stratigraphy at the site of the mere indicated that it was 6 feet 7 inches (2 m)–9.8 feet (3 m) deep in the Late-Devensian period, [ 35 ] and stretched to over 174 feet ...
The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is an internationally important archaeological site north-east of Boxgrove in West Sussex with findings that date to the Lower Palaeolithic.The oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered on the site, fossils of Homo heidelbergensis dating to 500,000 years ago. [2]