Identifying and Mapping Sites of National Importance within the East Sussex Wetlands (7043)
Author(s): Carl Champness, Liz Stafford, R A Nicholson, Klara Spandl
Commissioned as one of the National Importance Programme Pilot Projects in 2014, this project examined East Sussex as an example of an area facing new challenges in heritage management because of the discovery of early prehistoric wetland-edge ‘sites without structures', which were of national importance but could not be scheduled under current legislation. The report reviews the distribution and character of all Scheduled Monuments within the county in relation to relevant research priorities, as well as existing heritage protection measures, including the use of constraint/alert mapping. It then proposes how these notification areas might change to provide opportunities for increased protection of significant wetland heritage assets which are at growing risk from changing land-use strategies associated with flood risk mitigation and habitat enhancement.
- Report Number:
- 62/2023
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 133
- Keywords:
- Heritage Significance Archaeology Wetland
