Editing Scheduled monument (section)

==Legal protection for scheduled monuments==
[[File:Loughbrickland Crannog.jpg|thumb|[[Loughbrickland Crannog]] is a late [[Bronze Age]] human-made island.]]
The 1979 Act makes it a criminal offence to:
* Destroy or damage a scheduled monument
* Do any "works" which would demolish, damage, remove, repair, add or alter it (including agriculture, forestry, flooding and tipping) without previous permission from the Secretary of State or devolved equivalent, given through formal written "scheduled monument consent"
* Use a metal detector without prior consent
* Remove any historic or archaeological object from the site without prior consent.<ref name="AMAA1979"/>

Despite perceptions to the contrary, only a very small proportion of applications for scheduled monument consent are refused. In Scotland in the ten years from 1995 to 2005, out of 2,156 applications, only 16 were refused.<ref name=shep/> Development close to a scheduled monument which might damage its setting is also a material consideration in the planning system.

[[File:Roslin Rosslyn Chapel seen from the south.jpg|thumb|[[Rosslyn Chapel]] is an intact church, though only the unused sections are protected by scheduling]]