Wessex Archaeology Marine Geology and Geophysics Survey Data (2003 to 2010)

This dataset comprises data from Wessex Archaeology surveys which were conducted over various wreck sites between 2003 and 2010. Three of these datasets were acquired in English waters, one in Welsh waters and one in Scottish waters. The geology and geophysics component of the data are archived by British Geological Survey (BGS) in the Marine Environmental data and Information Network (MEDIN) Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. The data include multibeam echosounder, single-beam echosounder, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, magnetometer, and geological data (vibrocore logs and photos). Data were also provided to other archive centres as appropriate - UKHO (bathymetry), Royal Commission Ancient and Historic Monuments Wales (geophysics), Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (geophysics and diving/ROV), Archaeology Data Service (diving/ROV). Although generated for archaeological purposes, these high quality and resolution data are capable of re-use by marine surveyors and scientists from a range of different fields. Data are delivered via the BGS Offshore GeoIndex www.bgs.ac.uk/GeoIndex/offshore.htm and additional data are available on request enquiries@bgs.ac.uk.

Date (Creation): 2003

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605668

Owner

Wessex Archaeology

United Kingdom

Custodian

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Geological data
Geophysical data
Marine geophysics
Marine geology
MEDIN
Bathymetry
Bottom sampling
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Marine seismic surveys

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: licenceOGL

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Denominator: 250000

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND [id=2001428]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

NORTH SEA [id=2001452]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]

Date (Revision): 2010

Geographic identifier

UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 2003

End date: 2010

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)

Distribution format

Text file (TXT) ()
XTF ()
SEG-Y ()
PDF ()
Image (TIFF) ()
Image (JPEG) ()

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: GeoIndex_Offshore_offshore_data ( OGC:WMS )
One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service. This URL is the service end-point and is intended for consumption by software clients that understand the WMS API.

OnLine resource: GeoIndex_Offshore_offshore_data ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )
One or more layers for the dataset is provided through this OGC WMS (view) service.

OnLine resource: GeoIndex (offshore) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
The offshore GeoIndex shows the range of marine geoscience data we hold within the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC). This is primarily shallow geology and geophysics data collected as either part of regional or local mapping work, or provided to us by third parties. The BGS is the Marine Environment Data and Information Network (MEDIN) data archive centre (DAC) for geology, geophysics and backscatter.

OnLine resource: GeoIndex Offshore ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
BGS GeoIndex is a web tool for professional users who need to access BGS data as part of their business requirements. The map viewer is free to use and is designed to work on desktop and mobile devices.

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Wessex Archaeology (WA) was commissioned by various organisations to acquire, process and interpret marine survey data. Data were collected using various techniques. The geological and geophysics component of the data were provided to the BGS for long term archival in the MEDIN DAC and data were provided to other archive centres as appropriate.