England's Historic Seascapes: Withernsea to Skegness
Museum of London Archaeology, 2010. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000104. How to cite using this DOI
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- ADS Collection: 935
- ALSF Project Number: 4730
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000104
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Introduction
The content of the web-pages below are the result of an English Heritage initiative to preserve and disseminate the results of the full scope of work undertaken under the Seascapes ALSF grant. Data copyright for all material presented on these pages is retained by Museum of London Archaeology and English Heritage.
Background
This website is intended to provide information about the England's Historic Seascapes project: Withernsea to Skegness marine zone pilot area. The project has been carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) on behalf of English Heritage, and has been funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF).
The project is part of the second round of seascapes analysis funded by the ALSF; the first round was carried out by Wessex Archaeology at Liverpool Bay. This project attempts to develop the ideas developed as part of this Wessex project and apply them to a different coastal area.
The pilot area runs between Withernsea in Yorkshire to Skegness in Lincolnshire, including the Humber Estuary, and extends out into the open sea as far as the median line with Holland. The overall aim of the project is to map and interpret current sea uses in the pilot area, with a view to identifying historic significance of the maritime environment.
Historic Seascapes Analysis (HSA) is based on the principles of Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC), which is a way of describing and displaying the physical, environmental and human-made components that make the landscape appear as it does today. The character map created provides a broader understanding of the heritage of an area by providing the context to individual historic sites and monuments.
This website provides an offline .html led version of the GIS-database project that has been developed as part of this project. It is intended to make the project results accessible to a wide range of potential professional and non-professional users.
Aims
The project is primarily concerned with the characterisation of the offshore environment but it also includes some areas of land that have had/continue to have maritime character.
The project has aimed to:
- Describe the way the coast/sea is being used in the present day and interpret the time depth of this usage. The project does not provide a reconstruction of past landscapes.
- Apply and develop the methodology originally developed by Wessex Archaeology in a different type of coastal and marine environment
- Promote sustainable management of change to the historic environment in inter-tidal and marine zones
- Enhance and contextualise the Maritime Record of the National Monuments Record, those County HERs impinging upon the project area and Rapid Coastal Zone Assessments (currently being carried out by the Hull Archaeology Partnership)
- Stimulate future research relating to the project area
- Improve public awareness of the historic dimension of the project area to professional and non-professional users of the database
- Characterisation
- Interactive map
- To access the interactive map, view the map page. To find out further information on specific character areas click on the different character areas as required or navigate to them via the 'Character areas' link below.
