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What price the man-made heritage?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Fowler
Peter Fowler*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
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Abstract

British archaeology and British archaeologists now live in a fast-changing world. There are new administrative agencies and frameworks, major reviews of monument protection (above, this issue) and of university archaeology (last issue), a fundamental shift in the economics of the countryside (current issues passim), and a new mood in which an entrepreneurial ‘heritage industry’ has become conspicuous.

In 1986 the Environment Select Committee of the House of Commons investigated historic buildings and ancient monuments. Peter Fowler here reports the attitudes it brought to its study of archaeology and history, and the assessments of their value that it made.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 233 , November 1987 , pp. 409 - 423
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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