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Please use the following menu for pages on the historic environment in Cornwall. There is an introduction to the service below.

Carn Galver tin mine: remains of engine house and chimney stackBury Castle: Iron Age hillfortHedge near St Breward

Welcome to this Service

The Historic Environment Service's aim is to identify, record, protect, conserve, present and interpret the historic environment and heritage of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. The Historic Environment is all the physical evidence for past human activity, as well as its associations that we can see, understand and feel today.

This includes archaeology (sites and monuments), the built heritage (historic buildings and settlements) and historic landscapes. Cornwall and Scilly has a rich and diverse historic environment which ranges from prehistoric sites, medieval buildings and historic mine sites to recent military remains. Formerly known as the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, the Historic Environment Service provides the following services:

  • Manages and runs the Cornwall and Scilly Historic Environment Record;
  • Provides advice and consultation on archaeology and historic buildings through development control and strategic planning policy;
  • Provides a countryside advice service to landowners and others on the management of the rural historic environment through agri-environment schemes;
  • Gives advice to all on the significance of the historic environment and how it might best be managed and conserved;
  • Carries out a range of projects and fieldwork through its project team, including assessment, evaluation, survey, excavation and publication;
  • Produces a range of popular and academic publications and;
  • Is responsible for the Objective One funded Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site and Objective One funded Cornwall and Scilly Urban Survey

Registered as an archaeological organisation with the Institute of Field Archaeologists.

To find out more please get in contact.

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