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What’s the reason for conducting a surface survey?

What’s the reason for conducting a surface survey?

  • The surface survey of cultural properties refers to an inspection through which inspectors identify whether ruins and relics exist within a certain range of area, and, if so, how many of them there are and in what manner they are dispersed without affecting the topographical features of the area. Relics and ruins on the land surface can provide important information about the characteristics of the ruins in the area. 
  • It is important to conduct the surface survey because it can contribute to preventing cultural properties from being damaged, destroyed or submerged by various construction works or preserving the surrounding landscape of cultural properties in advance. The term surrounding landscape of cultural properties covers both cultural properties and their surrounding areas, so its scope can be different depending on the characteristics and types of cultural properties. It is because cultural properties were created in various historical backgrounds and with different meanings. When the surrounding landscape is considered to protect cultural properties, it can lead to conflicts, resulting in significant changes in ongoing construction works. To minimize such conflicts and changes, it is required to carry out a surface survey from the stage of construction project planning.
  • Mainly, the surface survey is conducted to confirm the potential existence and distribution of buried cultural properties, but in some cases, the survey should produce all the information relating to history, folklore and environmental condition, including natural monuments, of the area. The survey results are made into a report, which should be submitted to the Administrator of the Cultural Heritage Administration via the mayor/Do governor concerned. After a review by the Cultural Heritage Committee, the Administrator should notify appropriate protective measures to the mayor/Do governor concerned, who are required to check whether all the measures are duly performed.

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