Abstract
The first Ancient Monuments Act was the first measure to protect part of the built and artistic heritage of the United Kingdom. Gives a full account, from the documentary sources, of the Act's genesis, as a private member's Bill of the Liberal MP Sir John Lubbock, baron Avebury, and its administration by General A.H.L. Fox-Pitt-Rivers, first Inspector of Ancient Monuments. Discusses Lubbock's and Fox-Pitt-Rivers's concern with prehistoric monuments of ethnological interest, and their reluctance to involve themselves in the matters of taste that arose in the protection of more recent buildings, especially ecclesiastical and medieval structures. Catalogues the sites involved in the 1882 act, with a summary of its consequences in each case. -- AATA
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