Stonehenge and Avebury revised research framework

This project will provide a united historic environment research agenda and strategy for the Avebury and Stonehenge World Heritage Site. The two parts of the World Heritage Site currently have separate research frameworks that were created at different times and in different formats. The project will update and harmonise the existing frameworks to create a single research framework comprising a resource assessment and a single research strategy with a five-year currency. The project will also develop a method of monitoring the progress of the strategy to facilitate its revision.

Wessex Archaeology is acting as coordinator for this project and will liaise with expert contributors and assist in ensuring the evenness of scope and detail across the resource assessment, research framework and research strategy. They will also lead on editing contributions.

Consultation meetings are an essential part of the project. The purpose of these meetings is twofold. Firstly, to ensure that the Research Framework is as good as it can be. Secondly, to ensure that the large number of stakeholders and interested parties feel that the products of the project are community owned.