HC Deb 08 May 1989 vol 152 c348W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his reply of 18 April,Official Report, column 77, what is involved in preservation by record.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Preservation by record is a general term used to describe the process of documenting by means of photographic record, written report and where appropriate the display of the important artefacts/remains that have been uncovered in the course of an excavation.