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There are over 670 scheduled monuments in the ceremonial county of Somerset in South West England. The county consists of a non-metropolitan county, administered by Somerset County Council, which is divided into five districts, and two unitary authorities. The districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. The two administratively independent unitary authorities, which were established on 1 April 1996 following the breakup of the county of Avon, are North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset. These unitary authorities include areas that were once part of Somerset before the creation of Avon in 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 )〕 A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. The current legislation governing this is the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The term "monument" can apply to the whole range of archaeological sites, and they are not always visible above ground. Such sites have to have been deliberately constructed by human activity. They range from prehistoric standing stones and burial sites, through Roman remains and medieval structures such as castles and monasteries, to later structures such as industrial sites and buildings constructed for the World Wars or the Cold War. For ease of reference, lists of scheduled monuments in the county are organised by local authority area: == Bath and North East Somerset == (詳細はBath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.〔 Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of , two-thirds of which is green belt. BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.〔 The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley. BANES has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the district.〔 There are 58 scheduled monuments in Bath and North East Somerset.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/tourism-and-heritage/archaeology/list-scheduled-monuments )〕 Some of the oldest are Neolithic including the Stanton Drew stone circles and several tumuli. The Great Circle at Stanton Drew is the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. The date of construction is not known but is thought to be between 3000 and 2000 BCE which places it in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. There are also several Iron Age hill forts such as the one at Maes Knoll, which is connected to the Wansdyke a medieval defensive earthwork, several sections of which are included in this list.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wansdyke21.org.uk/wansdykehomepage.htm )〕 The Romano-British period is represented with several sites, most notably the Roman Baths〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/ )〕 and city walls in Bath. More recent sites include several bridges which date from the Middle Ages to the Palladian bridge in Prior Park Landscape Garden〔 and Dundas Aqueduct which was built in 1805 which is the most recent site included in the list. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scheduled monuments in Somerset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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