Datasets

• Assessing Boats and Ships 1860 - 1950

  Assessing Boats and Ships 1860-1950 was funded by English Heritage through the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project, undertaken by Wessex Archaeology, consists...

• Digital Data from Multiple Watching Briefs on the Boston Barriers Tidal...

  This collection comprises reports, images, and a finds database from a multi-phase watching brief carried out by Wessex Archaeology as part of the Boston Barriers Tidal Scheme...

• Artefacts from the Sea

  The Artefacts from the Sea project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, as distributed through English Heritage, and operated by Wessex Archaeology. The...

• Historic Seascape Characterisation: Hastings to Purbeck and Adjacent Waters

  The Hastings to Purbeck and Adjacent Waters Project is one of the four projects commissioned to implement the HSC National Method across a range of areas in English waters. The...

• Re-assessment of the archaeological potential of continental shelves

  The Re-assessment of the archaeological potential of continental shelves project is funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as disbursed by English Heritage. The...

• England's Shipping

  England's Shipping was a pioneering project that researched ways of mapping evidence of historic shipping in UK waters in order to improve the incorporation of such evidence...

• Maritime and Marine Historic Environment Research Framework

  This project produced a resource assessment and research agenda for England's maritime and marine historic environment, which is the first, key stage in developing a full...

• Isles of Scilly Designated Wrecks Interpretation

  This project concerns the five designated wreck sites situated in the Isles of Scilly: Tearing Ledge, HMS Association, Bartholomew Ledges, HMS Colossus and the Wheel Wreck. The...

• 2024 University of Plymouth Ropes to Reefs FISP Acoustic Telemetry Dataset

  Reporting lower environmental impacts and higher growth potential compared to traditional inshore farms, offshore mussel farming has the potential to become one of the most...

• Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

  The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment (RCZA) was undertaken by Humber Field Archaeology on behalf of English Heritage. The project consisted of a desk...

• 2023 South Skye Seas Initiative Under water marine life observation in Gott...

  Survey to identify a suspected seagrass bed. Seagrass bed was identified using GoPro on a pole lowered on a rope from a stationary boat.

• 2024 Skye Seas Survey Initiative Underwater marine life observations in...

  Survey to detect seagrass presence/absence using BlueRov2 with attached GoPro from survey boat (max 150m tether).

• 2019 South Skye Seas Initiative underwater marine life observation in Loch Eishort

  Survey to detect PMF presence/absence using BlueRov2 from survey boat. Water Linked Underwater GPS used; however GPS location determined from survey boat location as underwater...

• 1743-2010 National Marine Aquarium (NMA) United Kingdom Marine Fish Recording Scheme

  Volunteer marine fish records from a wide variety of sources including dive sightings, fishermen's records, anglers etc. as well as historical records collated from other...

• 2013 Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Antony Lynher Estuary...

  Transect survey of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas, now known as Magallana gigas, at Antony Lynher Estuary on the south shore of St Germans, Cornwall.

• 2023 Bangor University North Llyn Dive Survey

  Dive survey of experimental pot fishing on Modiolus modiolus reef in Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau SAC. Divers recorded quadrats in a control-impact design in the footprint of fishing...

• 2021-2024 Berwickshire Marine Reserve Intertidal Surveys

  Surveys conducted by Berwickshire Marine Reserve as part of bioblitz events held between 2021 and 2024. Observations made of all taxa in geolocated quadrats.

• 2023, Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects (MSPACE) UK EEZ...

  These shapefiles show the locations of climate change hotspots and climate change refugia in the UK EEZ, as identified from spatial meta-analysis conducted as part of the Marine...

• 2020-2023 Seawilding/BSAC Great Seagrass Surveys

  Habitat extent mapping and corresponding data of seagrass across various areas of Scotland conducted by Seawildling and BSAC as part of the Great Seagrass Survey 2023 using...

• 2021 South Skye Seas Initiative Underwater marine life observations in Loch Slapin

  Survey to detect seagrass presence and absence using BlueRov2 from survey boat. Waterlinked Underwater GPS was not working. GPS position determined from boat moored location....