Grants, Policy & Guidance

Supporting Archaeological Research

English Heritage seeks to support and develop better standards and guidance for archaeology, supported by more effective and well-publicised research and advisory networks. The aim is to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of the archaeological component of our grant programmes, to enhance the archaeological work that we undertake ourselves, and to seek to encourage the development of best practice in the discipline as a whole.

The first stage of this work is to disseminate information on, and improve access to, documents already available from English Heritage and the wider archaeological community. From this page you can access a number of existing policy, standards and guidance documents and more will be included as they become available. Further work will look to encourage and support the development of new papers to fill much needed gaps in the currently available literature.