Future Plans for Boxgrove Site

English Heritage announced on May 13th 2003 that the Boxgrove Quarry was to be bought for the nation, in a move which will protect the site from future burial or destruction. Plans drawn up by the Boxgrove Project for the partial restoration and future development of a field centre at the site will then begin to be implemented as part of a management agreement between English Heritage and the UCL team. It is then envisaged that the Institute of Archaeology, UCL will closely manage the site during the restoration and replanting of the quarry and then continue to direct excavations at the site in the coming years. The restoration plans include widening the open area around the hominid locality, allowing further areas of this rich and important site to be excavated. The plans ensure that Boxgrove will continue to contribute to the study of early man as well as providing and important educational resource and regional focus for Palaeolithic/Pleistocene field research. Click HERE for restoration plans.