Breakdown of expenditure following the framework defined in Exploring our past


Academic objectives                                                          1994-95 
                                                                                £

Processes of change	
 
Hunter-gathers: lower Palaeolithic to post glacial)                       255,442.01 
Hunter-gathers into Farmers (c 5000-3200 BC)	                           63,318.46 
Change and diversification in farming communities (c 2500-2200 BC)         40,079.56 
Communal monuments into settlement and field landscapes (c 1300-300 BC)   130,808.38 
Briton into Roman (c 200 BC - AD 200)	                                  364,726.26 
The early Medieval period (c AD 350-700)	                          412,449.23 
The Viking Age and late Saxon period	                                  125,140.54 
Transition from medieval to post-medieval traditions                      122,384.52 
The Industrial Revolution (c AD 1700-1850)	                            9,720.00 
 
Total	                                                                1,524,068.95 
 
Landscapes	 
Buried Pleistocene landscapes                                             200,928.66 
Relict field systems                                                      173,420.61 
Towns and their hinterlands                                               458,484.83 
Castles and their hinterlands                                              68,222.98 
Medieval rural settlement	                                          159,583.25 
Upland landscapes                                                         244,880.89 
Thames Valley                                                             291,472.26 
 
Total                                                                   1,596,993.48 
 
Towns 
Surveys                                                                   262,755.07 
Post excavation programmes                                              1,714,648.75 
The origins and development of the small town                             178,761.25 
 
Total                                                                   2,156,165.06 
 
The archaeological study of buildings                                      67,741.97 
 
Church and Cathedral archaeology                                          246,728.29 
 
Industrial archaeology                                                     69,960.36 
 
Patterns of industry and craftsmanship                                    397,681.85 
 

Identifying the resource 
 
Methods 
Identifying the resource                                                   22,748.48 
Field techniques                                                           41,578.94 
Sampling of cropmarks by small-scale excavation                            64,914.08 
 
Total                                                                     129,241.50

Survey and identification projects 
Wet and waterlogged sites                                                 452,889.91 
The Coastal Zone                                                          287,751.40 
The Offshore Submerged zone                                                14,161.38 
Alluvium                                                                  175,852.10 
Colluvium                                                                  94,414.85 
Unploughed upland                                                         204,156.47 
Ploughed landscapes                                                       322,346.47 
Unploughed lowlands                                                        97,797.68 
Industrial landscapes                                                      90,338.80 
 
Total                                                                   1,739,709.06 
 

Protecting the resource                                                   206,339.17 
 
The Monuments Protection Programme                                        120,801.82 
 
Site And Monuments Records                                                168,475.97 
 
Conservation archaeology posts                                            232,650.58 
 
Total                                                                     728,267.53 
 

Managing the resource                                                   1,234,585.42 
 
Assessment of importance and need 
The Survival Assessment Programme                                         593,250.01 
 
Monument class assessments 
Pleistocene deposits                                                       71,894.67 
Flat cemeteries                                                            43,928.50 
 
Total                                                                   1,943,658.60 
 

Analysing the resource 
 
Regional Reviews                                                          303,168.34 
 
Artefact And Environmental Reviews                                        363,005.51 
 
Total                                                                     666,173.85 
 

Other research objectives	                                        3,843,245.18 
 

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