The Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1910 ( 10 Edw. 7. & 1 Geo. 5. c. 3) was an act of the

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that aimed to improve the protection afforded to ancient monuments in Britain.

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The

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( 45 & 46 Vict. c. 73) had begun the process of establishing legal protection for some of Britain's ancient monuments; these had all been prehistoric sites, such as ancient

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. The Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1900 ( 63 & 64 Vict. c. 34) had continued this process, empowering the government's Commissioners of Works and local

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s to protect a wider range of properties. In 1908 a royal commission concluded that there were gaps between these two pieces of legislation, and the act was passed, allowing the commissioners and councils to receive ancient monuments as gifts, and making damaging the wider set of ancient monuments described in 1900 legislation a criminal offence in the same way as those covered by the 1882 legislation.

Consequences

The operation of the combined legislation was felt to be unwieldy, and three years later the whole act was repealed by section 24 of, and the second schedule to, the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendment Act 1913 ( 3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 32).Mynors, p.9.

Bibliography

*Mynors, Charles. (2006)
Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments.
' London: Sweet and Maxwell. .

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