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Metadata: Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm: Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment of CPT and Borehole Logs
Abstract:
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd. to undertake an archaeological Stage 1 borehole and Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) assessment of 40 boreholes and logs recovered from the proposed Race Bank offshore wind farm site. The Stage 1 assessment of the CPT and borehole logs investigated the sedimentary sequence within the wind farm area and evaluated the geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental potential of sediments from the site. The following six sedimentary units were interpreted from the borehole and CPT logs; Unit 6: Chalk (Cretaceous bedrock), Unit 5: Sand, gravel and clay (glacial sediments), Unit 4: Laminated clay (lagoon / shallow marine sediments), Unit 3: Gravelly sand (marine sediment), Unit 2: Gravelly sandy clay (glacial till), Unit 1: Peat and clay, shelly gravelly sand (Holocene terrestrial and marine sediments). Of these, it is considered possible that Unit 4, Unit 3 and Unit 1 have the potential to contain both in situ archaeological and palaeoenvironmental material. This includes prehistoric deposits and artefacts, and, in the case of Unit 1, modern archaeological material e.g. shipwrecks. The report makes proposals for the Stage 2 archaeological recording of 24 samples from 9 boreholes in order to evaluate the prehistoric archaeological potential of the site.
Data holder:
Archaeology Data Service
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 11364 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm: Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment of CPT and Borehole Logs |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 52120576-887b-3968-8d25-2918424629fb |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | wessexar1-385672 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2010-07-28 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2010-08-27 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd. to undertake an archaeological Stage 1 borehole and Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) assessment of 40 boreholes and logs recovered from the proposed Race Bank offshore wind farm site. The Stage 1 assessment of the CPT and borehole logs investigated the sedimentary sequence within the wind farm area and evaluated the geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental potential of sediments from the site. The following six sedimentary units were interpreted from the borehole and CPT logs; Unit 6: Chalk (Cretaceous bedrock), Unit 5: Sand, gravel and clay (glacial sediments), Unit 4: Laminated clay (lagoon / shallow marine sediments), Unit 3: Gravelly sand (marine sediment), Unit 2: Gravelly sandy clay (glacial till), Unit 1: Peat and clay, shelly gravelly sand (Holocene terrestrial and marine sediments). Of these, it is considered possible that Unit 4, Unit 3 and Unit 1 have the potential to contain both in situ archaeological and palaeoenvironmental material. This includes prehistoric deposits and artefacts, and, in the case of Unit 1, modern archaeological material e.g. shipwrecks. The report makes proposals for the Stage 2 archaeological recording of 24 samples from 9 boreholes in order to evaluate the prehistoric archaeological potential of the site. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This metadata was prepared by the creator entered into the OASIS system hosted by the Archaeology Data Service. |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Wessex Archaeology (2010) Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm: Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment of CPT and Borehole Logs, 62557.01. Wessex Archaeology: Salisbury |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Protected sites | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine archaeology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | renewable energy | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.275273672172 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.91976165771484 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.227412682397 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.83324432373047 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Archaeology Data Service | |
| help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Wessex Archaeology | |
| info@wessexarch.co.uk | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Archaeology Data Service | |
| help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Wessex Archaeology | |
| info@wessexarch.co.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Archaeology Data Service | |
| help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://doi.org/10.5284/1078972 |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | download |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data. Multiple occurences are allowed here. One entry shall be from the INSPIRE Metadata registry and the other free text should be part of the resource `Have specific limitations`. | Restrictions Apply |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Terms and Conditions apply to reuse. |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents (PDF) |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2020-03-06 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2020-03-06 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2010-07-28 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2025-12-05 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |