National Mapping Programme

The National Mapping Programme (NMP) will achieve this by identifying and recording all archaeological sites and landscapes visible on aerial photographs. Basic level interpretation, mapping and analysis is undertaken for remains of all periods from the Neolithic to the twentieth century. Priority is given to those areas that are under the greatest threat or are poorly understood. A major contribution of NMP has been to double the number of known archaeological sites, and thus transform our understanding of past human settlement and land use.