Heritage Management of Farmed and Forested Landscapes in Europe

Foreword / Katalin Wollák, President of Europae Archaeologiae Consilium 7
Introduction / Stephen Trow 9
European Overview
1. Farming, forestry, rural land management and archaeological historical landscapes in Europe / Stephen Trow 19
National and Local Perspectives
2. Challenges related to archaeological heritage preservation in the Norwegian rural landscape / Ingrid Smedstad 29
3. Problems and perspectives of archaeological heritage preservation in farmed landscapes in Germany – a survey of federal structures / Andreas Büttner, Jana Esther Fries, Henning Hassmann, Gabriele Schiller, Michael Strobel and Thomas Westphalen 37
4. Shaping the Netherlands / Cees van Rooijen and Guido Mauro 43
5. Raising consciousness: the reconciliation of archaeological heritage preservation and agricultural practice in Hungary / Réka Virágos 51
6. Agricultural changes, ancient mounds, and archaeological course-corrections: some field (and forest) notes from southern Burgundy / William Meyer 59
7. Cover is not shelter: archaeology and forestry in the Czech Republic / Zdeněk Neustupný 69
8. Environmental monitoring of archaeological deposits / Vibeke Vandrup Martens 75
9. Monitoring and managing archaeological sites on the farmland of Wales / Peter Gaskell and Gwilym Hughes 83
10. Field Monument Wardens in Northern Ireland: working with owners to manage scheduled historic monuments / Claire Foley 87
11. The Field Monument Advisory Scheme in the Republic of Ireland / Rosanne Meenan 91
12. Assessing and managing risk: the Scheduled Monuments At Risk (SMAR) and Conservation Of Scheduled Monuments In Cultivation (COSMIC) projects, England / Jon Humble 95
13. The Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) and archaeology / Hugh Carey and Ann Lynch 105
14. Archaeology, agriculture and environment on the Burren Uplands, Ireland / Christine Grant 113
15. Heritage stewardship in Flanders: rural development money for rural heritage management? / Karl Cordemans 119
16. Agri-environmental schemes and the historic environment of the United Kingdom: a view from Wales / Mike Yates, with contributions from Victoria Hunns, Rhonda Robinson, and Jonathan Wordsworth 123
17. Ripping up history, sordid motives or cultivating solutions? Plough damage and archaeology: a perspective from England / Stephen Trow 129
18. Mitigation impossible? Practical approaches to managing archaeology in arable farming systems / Vincent Holyoak 135
19. Forestry and the historic environment in Britain: a challenging past and an exciting future / Tim Yarnell and Peter Crow 141
20. Forestry and archaeology in Ireland: current practice and future trends / Emmet Byrnes 147
21. Archaeology and forestry in Bavaria (Germany): current ways of co-operation / Joachim Hamberger, Walter Irlinger and Grietje Suhr 157
Looking to the Future
22. Changing the land – the implications of climate-change policies, actions and adaptations for Scotland’s rural historic environment / Jonathan Wordsworth 163
23. The impoverishment of heritage in the European landscape – with some Swedish examples / Leif Gren and Peter Norman 169
Contributors 177
Résumés/Zusammenfassungen 179