Marine Archaeology
One of the most dynamic areas of the historic environment is where the land meets the sea.
The waves are continually bringing in and taking away deposits exposing ancient land surfaces in the intertidal zone and new sections through monuments on the cliffs. Between 2010 and 2015 for former Welsh Archaeological Trusts carried out a project, funded with grant-aid from Cadw, to recruit volunteers through the Arfordir Project to help us monitor and record the ever-changing coastline and ensure that new information reaches the Historic Environment Record. This work has been taken forward by Heneb as a pan Wales initiative.
Local authorities and environmental bodies such as Natural Resources Wales are responsible for drawing up management plans for the coastline at a strategic level. The Trust provides them with recommendations to ensure that the historic environment is properly protected, and is taken into account when new sea defences are designed. We also provide advice to ensure that people using the coastline for recreation and other purposes do not inadvertently damage the archaeology.
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Planning Services
We provide specialist impartial archaeological advice to the local planning authorities of Wales, as well as to national agencies, utilities companies, developers, consultants and others engaged in development in the public and private sectors.
Historic Landscapes
The Historic Landscapes Register provides a first step, a national overview of the historic content of the Welsh landscape. The next step, so essential to the process of informing the way in which aspects of the historic landscape may be…