A discussion on the new Heritage Action forum opened our eyes to an interesting and slightly disturbing question:
When was the last time a development was stopped or significantly altered as a result of unknown archaeology being discovered?
Picture of the Coliseum taken by Kevan Davis
The latest suggestion we had stepped outside our remit slightly and was the Coliseum under the Guildhall in London, discovered in 1988. Surely there must be a more recent example. Can you help? Leave a comment below or on the forum thread if you know of any more recent discovery which permanently stopped or changed significantly a development.
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05/11/2012 at 02:46
mark
I don’t know much about the British system, but in the US, it’s pretty rare for a project to be stopped completely because of archaeological sites. I’d hate to think it’s been since 1988 that a project over there hasn’t gone through because of archaeology — kind of undermines the work we do.