BGS Metadata Catalogue
Wessex Archaeology (WSX) Geophysical Survey WESSEX2B: (09/Aug/2005 to 19/Aug/2005)
Wessex Archaeology (WA) was commissioned by English Heritage (EH) to undertake geophysical surveys as part of the project entitled ‘Wrecks on the Seabed: Assessing, Evaluating and Recording’, supported by Round 2 of the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The specific aim of this project was to provide industry, regulators and contractors with guidance on the archaeological assessment, evaluation and recording of wreck sites. ‘Assessment, evaluation and recording’ are taken to include various methods of archaeological investigation that are intended to improve the understanding, preservation and appreciation of the historic environment. Geophysical surveys were conducted over five wreck site areas. This archive relates to the geophysical survey over the Liberator, an unknown wreck, and the submarine U86. Sidescan sonar and magnetometer data were acquired from the vessel Wessex Explorer on the 9th and 12th August 2005 and the multibeam echosounder data were acquired on the 15th and 19th August 2005. The geology and geophysics component of the data are archived at British Geological Survey (BGS) MEDIN Data Archive Centre (DAC) for Geology and Geophysics. Data were also provided to other archive centres as appropriate.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2005-08-19
- Citation identifier
- British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF653
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Custodian Wessex Archaeology
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131)
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SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Access constraints
- No restrictions, a copyright acknowledgement is required and permission from any third party for the release of the data has been obtained. Inclusion of any third party data will determine the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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.
- Use limitation
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unrestricted use, copyright acknowledgement - Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced Wessex Archaeology materials "Contains Wessex Archaeology materials ©Wessex Archaeology [year]"
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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Wight
BGS Gazetteer 2025-05-06 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Eastern Channel
Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation
- Geographic identifier
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ENGLISH CHANNEL
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation
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- Begin date
- 2005-08-09
- End date
- 2005-08-19
- Reference system identifier
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OGP
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
www.epsg.org 2005 revision
- Distribution format
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name HTTP
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html?cruise=WESSEX2B BGS Offshore Geoindex
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of unknown theme
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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Geophysical equipment types used included: Magnetometer and Sidescan Sonar. The survey was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology. Navigation was provided by a Fugro Omnistar 8300 HP GPS receiver, with corrections provided via satellite subscription service which gave a positional accuracy of ±10cm. Multibeam bathymetric data was acquired by Netsurvey Ltd. using a Reson 8125 Multibeam echosounder and a MHARS motion reference unit and gyro. Sound velocity profiles were recorded at the start of each multibeam survey and then as required during the survey. The raw bathymetric data were processed Netsurvey Ltd, in order to apply tidal corrections and remove any spikes in the data. A Klein 3000 dual frequency digital sidescan sonar, which operates at both 125kHz and 445kHz simultaneously, was used for all sidescan surveys.The magnetometer data were acquired with a Marine Magnetics Explorer Proton Magnetometer towed 10m behind the sidescan sonar towfish.
Metadata
- File identifier
- c5a7ef2f-f8c5-066c-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-06
- Metadata standard name
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MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
- Metadata standard version
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Version 2.3.5
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey (BGS)
Point of contact
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