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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.

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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
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • MEDIN
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

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Begin date
2003
End date
2010
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
  • TXT ()

  • XTF ()

  • SEG-Y ()

  • PDF ()

  • TIF ()

  • JPG ()

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
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
 
 

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