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Scapa Flow and the protection and management of Scotland's historic military shipwrecks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian Oxley
Ian Oxley*
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Flat 2F2, 106 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh EH11 2NPS, Scotland. ioxley@orange.net
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Introduction

In the past Britain has been a global naval, mercantile and industrial power and, as an island which has benefited from successive waves of settlement, its history is inextricably linked to its surrounding seas (Lavery 2001). High volumes of shipping traffic and a long history of seafaring and warfare have contributed to a density of shipwreck remains in UK territorial waters which is likely to be amongst the highest in the world.

Recently warship wrecks have been given a significantly higher degree of attention in the UK and world-wide, and the recent ‘scheduling’ of the German High Seas Fleet wrecks under the terms of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 2979 (AMAA 1979) has led to new challenges in heritage management. At the same time as we are becoming aware of the value of these resources, the administrative, legislative, environmental and social frameworks in which they have to be managed are changing rapidly.

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Special section: Scotland 2002
Information
Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 862 - 868
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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