Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards: Merging Necrogeography, Historical Archaeology, an

Chapter 1: Introduction - overview and relevant background, including published (cross-disciplinary) research that provides a context and justification for the study.

Chapter 2: Urban sites - study area outlined, with details of the churchyards visited along a transect sampled in England and Scotland towards the British East Coast, including the cities of Oxford, York, and Scarborough in England and Edinburgh, Inverness, and Dunbar in Scotland.

Chapter 3: Research background - including coverage of the relevant literature, including site-specific information.

Chapter 4: Assessing the record - research methodology set out, with rationale for selecting a longitudinal project with multiple sites (multisite), using a transect for sampling in Britain.

Chapter 5: Stylistic trends - specific results of the historical archaeological work for each churchyard, city, and across England and Scotland, including seriated styles for various study headstone variables.

Chapter 6: Current state - details of weathering patterns and trends, with comparisons drawn at various spatial scales for a multisite cross-disciplinary study.

Chapter 7: Conservation issues - discussion of the implications of rock weathering on the heritage/ cultural stone markers and notes on the condition going forward.

Chapter 8: Conclusion - highlighting the contribution of this research as part of long-term research and sustainability research, with a final assessment of the heritage sustainability in these churchyards.