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<p>As part of the application process for grant funding to the National Heritage Memorial
Fund, the National Trust provided a condition survey which highlighted, among the
61 at-risk archaeological sites, that 15 scheduled monuments and 34 unscheduled monuments
across both parcels of land were at imminent risk of loss. These included the Stonehenge
Avenue, Conebury Henge, the Conebury Anomaly, Neolithic burials and occupation sites,
and numerous Bronze Age round barrows. The report concluded that, unless arable cultivation
ceased, it was likely that much, if not all, of what remained of these monuments could
have been lost to the plough within a decade.</p><p>In assessing the application,
the National Heritage Memorial Fund sought expert advice, which concluded that, if
these important sites remained under arable cultivation, they would continue to be
at risk and subject to denudation and ultimately loss, as there was no alternative
strategy that could be readily agreed to secure the survival of these sites and features.</p>
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