Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in any particular case whether a site known primarily through archaeological work has sufficient 'historical significance' to be listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the historical significance of archaeological properties. This second edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on 17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties, shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.

Comprehensive report on rescue excavation of 32 individuals who died at the Uxbridge Almshouse between 1831 and 1872 and were buried in its cemetery. It must be coincidence that 19th century coffin lid hinges look like 1st century Roman armour fittings!

The successful treatment of an archaeological site may be the difference between a feasible and a flawed development proposal, a viable and an unviable economic unit, a credible conservation strategy and wishful thinking or, in cases where the criminal law intervenes, reasonable behaviour and imprisonment. The law of archaeological sites, even if limited to the conservation aspects, involves questions about land ownership, statutory protection of land and buildings, planning law, compensation, ownership of portable objects, copyright drawings and archives, procurement contracts, and burial law. The author presents a linked narrative of such subjects in his book, supported by statutory extracts, ministerial guidance and precedent documents as appropriate.