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Collection Information
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5284/1058999 |
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| Collection ID | 1003676 |
| Collection Title | Domesday Shires and Hundreds of England |
| Description | This archive contains digitised shapefiles of the administrative boundaries of England and parts of Wales as they are believed to have existed in AD 1086, as recorded in Domesday Book. The data-package consists of three ESRI shapefiles, describing three tiers of administrative district that can be reconstructed from Domesday Book, ranging from small (DBhundreds.shp) to large (DBshires.shp) in scale, with some areas also having intermediate (DBinter.shp) administrative divisions. |
| Collection Dates | Data creation (start) 25-Sep-2010 |
| Data creation (end) 31-Jan-2017 | |
| First Released 31-Jan-2020 | |
| Creator | |
| Version | 1 |
Access and Rights
| Cite As |
Brookes, S. (2020) Domesday Shires and Hundreds of England [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1058999 |
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| Copyright | Data copyright © Dr Stuart Brookes unless otherwise stated. |
| Licence | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| Primary Contact |
UCL Institute of Archaeology 31-34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY England Email: [email protected] |
| Metadata Contact | ADS: [email protected] |
Content and Subject Information
| Collection type | Dataset Collection |
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| Metadata Record | |
| Data available | GIS: 3 objects |
| Text: 1 objects | |
| Language | |
| Subject | Documentary Evidence (Evidence (England)) |
| Placename Evidence (Evidence (England)) | |
| Archaeology (Library of Congress Subject Headings) | |
| Administrative and political divisions (Library of Congress Subject Headings) | |
| Archaeology, Medieval (Library of Congress Subject Headings) | |
| Hundred (Other) | |
| Administrative district (Other) | |
| Shire (Other) | |
| Periods | EARLY MEDIEVAL (Period (England)) |
| MEDIEVAL (Period (England)) |
Project Information (Provenance)
| Location | British Isles and Ireland (World region) |
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| England (British Isles country) | |
| Wales (British Isles country) | |
| World, Europe, United Kingdom, England [7002445] (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names) | |
| World, Europe, United Kingdom, Wales [7002443] (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names) | |
| Coordinates | OSGB: 123550 005000 |
| OSGB: 661000 540000 | |
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Relationships
| This Collection Is Part Of | 1 parent collection, available on the ADS website. |
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