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.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2003
Custodian
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
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
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Geological data
- Geophysical data
- Marine geophysics
- Marine geology
- MEDIN
- Bathymetry
- Bottom sampling
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Marine seismic surveys
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
- 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
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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ENGLISH CHANNEL [id=2001401]
- Date (Revision)
- 2010
- Geographic identifier
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INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND [id=2001428]
- Date (Revision)
- 2010
- Geographic identifier
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NORTH SEA [id=2001452]
- Date (Revision)
- 2010
- Geographic identifier
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NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W) [id=2001453]
- Date (Revision)
- 2010
- Geographic identifier
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UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
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- Begin date
- 2003
- End date
- 2010
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
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Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
- OnLine resource
- https://www.bgs.ac.uk/map-viewers/geoindex-offshore/
- OnLine resource
- Offshore Theme
- 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.
- File identifier
- cc2b3345-3298-4e9b-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605668
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
Not available
NERC Data Catalogue Service