This theme focused on the work undertaken to reduce the impact of aggregate extraction on the historic environment, both terrestrial and marine. The ALSF has contributed to research and demonstration in three main areas:

Heritage Management – Aggregates extraction and management of the historic environment

This report looks at aggregates extraction and the management of the historic environment. The report reviews the impact that ALSF projects aimed at developing new guidance, standards, techniques and best practice have had on the aggregates industry and archaeological curators and practitioners. The report provides a critique and summary of the suite of guidance to industry undertaken through the ALSF placing such guidance in the context of wider research into the historic environment.

Rich Deposits – Aggregates extraction, research and the knowledge pool

This report addresses those projects which contain significant element of research and set out to expand our understanding of the historic environment relates to aggregates extraction on land and under the sea. The audience for this report is primarily the so-called ‘knowledge society’ – academics and researchers in higher education institutions; archaeological learned societies; archaeological officers (curators) in local authorities; those who conduct fieldwork, as well as interested members of the public. These are the groups that both generate and put new knowledge to work – planning and managing archaeological issues with the aggregates industry and engaging communities in historic and environmental issues.

The Sands of Time – Aggregates extraction, heritage and the public

This report is aimed at the general public, everyone involved in outreach activities, and at government, drawing from the ‘knowledge pool’ and engaging communities with the heritage associated with both current and past extraction. It examines the relationship between a vital industry, the heritage professionals who deal with the effects that this industry inevitable has on the historic environment, and the general public who may or may not have opinions on both the industry and the idea of ‘heritage’. It also includes a guide to what potentially does and does not work in outreach projects.

Reviews

Title			Format	Size
The Sands of Time – Aggregates extraction, heritage and the public			PDF	3.7MB
English Heritage
Sustainable heritage – Aggregates extraction and management of the historic environment			PDF	2.8MB
English Heritage
Rich Deposits – Aggregates extraction, research and the knowledge pool			PDF	2.7MB
English Heritage

Project Reports