Changes in Policy for Excavating Humans Remains in England and Wales

Parker Pearson, Mike, Pitts, Mike and Sayer, Duncan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-2769-1281 (2013) Changes in Policy for Excavating Humans Remains in England and Wales. In: Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom. Heritage Matters . Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, UK, pp. 147-158. ISBN 9781843838067

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Abstract

This chapter examines the legal and procedural aspects concerning the archaeological excavation of human remains in England and Wales (the situation in Scotland is covered by different legislation; see Chapter 6). There is a wide variety of legislation and codes of practice, which bear directly or indirectly upon the archaeological recovery of such remains and their subsequent analysis and curation. Since 2008, the situation has proved problematic because of a reinterpretation of the burial laws that affect archaeology (see Sayer 2010). Changes in advice and consultation by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have attempted to resolve these problems, but requests to draw up new legislation have been declined


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