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Scheduled monuments in Somerset
There are over 670 scheduled monuments in the ceremonial county of Somerset in South West England. The county consists of a non-metropolitan county, administered by Somerset County Council, which is divided into five districts, and two unitary authorities. The districts of Somerset are West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Mendip and Sedgemoor. The two administratively independent unitary authorities, which were established on 1 April 1996 following the breakup of the county of Avon, are North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset. A scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The current legislation governing this is the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The term "monument" can apply to the whole range of archaeological sites, and they are not always visible above ground. Such sites have to have been deliberately constructed by human activity. They range from prehistoric standing stones and burial sites, through Roman remains and medieval structures such as castles and monasteries, to later structures such as industrial sites and buildings constructed for the World Wars or the Cold War.


 * Contributor(s): Rodw

A comprehensive set of articles relating to scheduled monuments in the English county of Somerset. All of the lists are Featured Lists and the lead article is GA. --&mdash; Rod talk 07:54, 7 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Note Nominator will be away (at Glastonbury Festival) from 22 to 29 June and will not be able to respond to any comments during this time. &mdash; Rod talk 19:43, 18 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Support current scope I like the approach of having lists broken down by district to make them easier to navigate. Far more than the required 50% are Featured. I think it is a reasonable way to cover the topic, much as 670 Featured Articles would be nice ;) Would there be the intention to include more articles in the topic such as the most popular pages? I'm thinking along the lines of Glastonbury Tor (GA) or Wells Cathedral (FA). It might be tempting to highlight a few of the most important, but the gradual creep might make it difficult to establish a cut off. Certainly I am happy to support the current group of lists. Nev1 (talk) 20:56, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the support. I think 670 FAs is beyond me (certainly for a few years) and I'm unsure how the most "popular" or "important" would be decided, therefore I think it should be just the lists and the lead article.&mdash; Rod talk 21:57, 4 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Support I think this is the best way to approach the topic - I'm not sure where a line could be drawn in order to include individual topics, and we have similar situations with other existing FTs (such as the Oslo Metro, where list articles at FL are used instead of a complete set of those articles). Miyagawa (talk) 08:50, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Meets the criteria as far as I can see, great work. NapHit (talk) 17:06, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support the topic is fine. I took the freedom to tweak the naming scheme. Nergaal (talk) 19:03, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Closed with a consensus to promote to Featured Topic. - GamerPro64  20:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)