'Planning Policy Guidance 16: Archaeology and Planning' doesn't lend itself to snazzy headlines. Nor does it make any discoveries, dig up mummies or make new theories. But it may just be the most important paper to hit archaeology since the Dead Sea Scrolls. PPG 16, as it's known in the trade, deserves to be better known. It's saved some of Britain's most iconic archaeological treasures, and has revolutionalised the way we can hold on to our hidden past. Here's a quick look at the policy, and some effects it has had since its inception in 1990.
