Rescue – The British Archaeological Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1971 as a pressure group by a team including the archaeologists Margaret Ursula Jones[1] and Phillip A. Barker.[2]
The Trust campaigns for government funds to permit the excavation of archaeological sites in advance of road-building, construction or other development. Specific actions include opposing the planned tunnel near the site of Stonehenge, proposed in 2017, claiming that it could threaten the site's UNESCO heritage status,[3] and criticising the use of metal detectors to discover items of cultural significance.[4]
References
- Hunter, J. R. and Ralston, I. B. M. (eds), 1993, Archaeological Resource Management in the UK. Stroud: Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-0275-2
- ^ "Margaret Jones". The Guardian. 2001-05-02. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ Fagan, Brian M. (2014). The Great Archaeologists. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500772379. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ Browne, Dom. "Stonehenge tunnel plans modified as costs increase". transport-network.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ Owen, Jonathan (3 April 2011). "Anger as TV show endorses metal-detecting 'plunderers'". The Independent. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
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