Funding body Total %
Private Developer 2810 70.54
County Council 331 7.18
Landowner 284 6.24
District Council 247 4.58
Department of Transport 134 2.29
Water Authority 107 1.9
Ministry of Defence 47 0.84
English Heritage 39 0.82
Parochial Church Council 31 0.66
Development Corporation 30 0.65
Other Charitable Trust 28 0.63
Diocese 23 0.54
Parish Council 21 0.5
Dean and Chapter 21 0.49
Electricity Authority/Company 19 0.47
National Rivers Authority 17 0.32
National Trust 13 0.3
Oil company 11 0.23
Department of the Environment 5 0.22
Telecommunications Company 5 0.2
British Gas or other Gas Company 5 0.15
National Park Authority 3 0.07
Local Archaeological Society/Amateur Archeologist/s 2 0.07
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food 2 0.05
Other Research Trust 2 0.03
RCHME 1 0.03
Totals 4238 100

Table 1: Analysis of the funding sources for field evaluations 1990 – 1999, after Darvill and Russell (2002) Table W14.