Publications

Graveyards and Gravestones 1

Working in a Graveyard

Information on the legal implications of work on a historic graveyard.

Graveyards and Gravestones 2

Good Practice

Information on best practice in maintaining a historic graveyard from planning through to implementation.

Graveyards and Gravestones 3

Looking After Gravestones

This leaflet describes best practice in looking after gravestones.

Graveyards and Gravestones 4

Health and Safety Guidance for Visitors and Owners

Guidance on health and safety issues for visitors to graveyards and owners of memorials.

Graveyards and Gravestones 5

Health and Safety for Works Teams and Volunteers

This leaflet provides straightforward guidance on how to work safely in historic graveyards.

Graveyards and Gravestones 6

Emergency measures for historic memorials

A short guide for cemetery managers

Graveyards and Gravestones 7

Grants

Information on our grants for ancient monuments and historic buildings and how they apply.

Graveyards and Gravestones 8

Abandoned Structures

This leaflet provides guidance on how to look after abandoned structures within graveyards.

Memorandum of Guidance Regarding Farms and Stables

An extract from the memorandum of guidance regarding farms and stables.

Passed to the Future

Scotland's strategy for sustainable management of the historic environment.

Pointing the Way to the Future

The climate and nature crises and our approach to our regulatory and advisory services in the planning and other consenting systems.

This statement explains how our regulatory role in land management and planning processes intersects with our response to the global climate and nature crises.

The Treatment of Human Remains in Archaeology

This policy paper sets a simple framework for archaeological work.