Some 40 per cent of Europe is farmed and 47 per cent forested. The future of the majority of Europes archaeological sites therefore depends on rural land uses that lie outside the spatial planning and development control systems of its various nation states. This volume, produced by the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and Europae Archaeologiae Consilium (EAC) Joint Working Group on Farming, Forestry and Rural Land Management, examines the challenges posed by agriculture, forestry and other rural land uses in terms of the long-term conservation of Europes archaeological sites and the management of its historic landscapes.
Author(s): Stephen Trow, Vincent Holyoak, Emmet Byrnes (eds.)
Series: EAC Occasional Papers, 4
Publisher: Europae Archaeologia Consilium
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Brussels
Foreword / Katalin Wollák, President of Europae Archaeologiae Consilium 7
Introduction / Stephen Trow 9
European Overview
1. Farming, forestry, rural land management and archaeological historical landscapes in Europe / Stephen Trow 19
National and Local Perspectives
2. Challenges related to archaeological heritage preservation in the Norwegian rural landscape / Ingrid Smedstad 29
3. Problems and perspectives of archaeological heritage preservation in farmed landscapes in Germany – a survey of federal structures / Andreas Büttner, Jana Esther Fries, Henning Hassmann, Gabriele Schiller, Michael Strobel and Thomas Westphalen 37
4. Shaping the Netherlands / Cees van Rooijen and Guido Mauro 43
5. Raising consciousness: the reconciliation of archaeological heritage preservation and agricultural practice in Hungary / Réka Virágos 51
6. Agricultural changes, ancient mounds, and archaeological course-corrections: some field (and forest) notes from southern Burgundy / William Meyer 59
7. Cover is not shelter: archaeology and forestry in the Czech Republic / Zdeněk Neustupný 69
8. Environmental monitoring of archaeological deposits / Vibeke Vandrup Martens 75
9. Monitoring and managing archaeological sites on the farmland of Wales / Peter Gaskell and Gwilym Hughes 83
10. Field Monument Wardens in Northern Ireland: working with owners to manage scheduled historic monuments / Claire Foley 87
11. The Field Monument Advisory Scheme in the Republic of Ireland / Rosanne Meenan 91
12. Assessing and managing risk: the Scheduled Monuments At Risk (SMAR) and Conservation Of Scheduled Monuments In Cultivation (COSMIC) projects, England / Jon Humble 95
13. The Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) and archaeology / Hugh Carey and Ann Lynch 105
14. Archaeology, agriculture and environment on the Burren Uplands, Ireland / Christine Grant 113
15. Heritage stewardship in Flanders: rural development money for rural heritage management? / Karl Cordemans 119
16. Agri-environmental schemes and the historic environment of the United Kingdom: a view from Wales / Mike Yates, with contributions from Victoria Hunns, Rhonda Robinson, and Jonathan Wordsworth 123
17. Ripping up history, sordid motives or cultivating solutions? Plough damage and archaeology: a perspective from England / Stephen Trow 129
18. Mitigation impossible? Practical approaches to managing archaeology in arable farming systems / Vincent Holyoak 135
19. Forestry and the historic environment in Britain: a challenging past and an exciting future / Tim Yarnell and Peter Crow 141
20. Forestry and archaeology in Ireland: current practice and future trends / Emmet Byrnes 147
21. Archaeology and forestry in Bavaria (Germany): current ways of co-operation / Joachim Hamberger, Walter Irlinger and Grietje Suhr 157
Looking to the Future
22. Changing the land – the implications of climate-change policies, actions and adaptations for Scotland’s rural historic environment / Jonathan Wordsworth 163
23. The impoverishment of heritage in the European landscape – with some Swedish examples / Leif Gren and Peter Norman 169
Contributors 177
Résumés/Zusammenfassungen 179
