In 1990 the Government published 'Planning Policy Guidance 16 Planning and Archaeology' (PPG16) (Department of Environment 1990). PPG16 established a process for dealing with archaeological remains affected by development. The key element is the presumption in favour of reburial and preservation 'in situ' of significant archaeological remains.
English Heritage Guidance
English Heritage funded guidance on preservation 'in situ' and includes:
M J Davis, K L A Gdaniec, M Brice and L White 2004 Mitigation of construction impact on archaeological remains. Museum of London Archaeology Service: London
C McCaffrey, K Challis, D Cranstone, M Trueman and C P Nathanail 2005 Guidance on Assessing the Risk Posed by Land Contamination and its Remediation on Archaeological Resource Management. Environment Agency: Bristol (downloadable from this page).
English Heritage 2007 Piling and Archaeology. English Heritage: Swindon (downloadable from this page).
Further information
The series of Preserving Archaeological Remains 'in situ' conference publications contain papers on key isseus and case studies.
M Corfield, P Hinton, T Nixon, M Pollard. (eds) 1998 Preserving archaeological remains in situ. Proceedings of the Conference of 1-3 April 1996. Museum of London Archaeology Service: London
Nixon, T. 2004 Preserving archaeological remains in situ? Proceedings of the 2nd conference 12-14 September 2001. Museum of London Archaeology Service: London
H Kars and R M van Heeringen (eds.) 2008 Preserving archaeological remains in situ - Proceedings of the 3rd conference 7-9 December 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies Volume 10, 2008. Vrije Universiteit: Amsterdam
