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Metadata: 2009 - 2011, ORCA, Inner Sound, Marine Cultural Heritage Environmental Impact Assessment
Abstract:
The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) was commissioned by Xodus Group and MeyGen Ltd to assess the potential impacts of the proposed marine renewable energy development in the Inner Sound, Caithness, between the island of Stroma and the mainland parish of Canisbay upon marine historic environment assets. This assessment includes: • A review of current legislation and guidance concerning the marine heritage; • A review of existing data sources (DBA – desk based assessment) to identify known submerged sites in the area and the potential for unidentified submerged sites and landscapes; • A review and interpretation of remote sensing survey data to check for any sites identified by the DBA and to identify any previously unknown cultural heritage remains that show in the survey data; • An assessment of the importance of any identified sites and landscapes; • Identification and assessment of the significance of any potential impacts (including direct, indirect, cumulative and residual) of the proposed development on the above, and • Recommend mitigation strategies (for guidance purposes) to avoid or reduce impacts on any identified sites or palaeo-landscapes to a level where there are none or they are not significant.
Data holder:
Crown Estate Scotland
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4496 |
| 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. | 2009 - 2011, ORCA, Inner Sound, Marine Cultural Heritage Environmental Impact Assessment |
| 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. | 2c1ece6f-06ec-47b4-a9a0-c85372a4926f |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | Project266 |
| 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. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2009-09-08 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2011-10-01 |
| 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. | The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) was commissioned by Xodus Group and MeyGen Ltd to assess the potential impacts of the proposed marine renewable energy development in the Inner Sound, Caithness, between the island of Stroma and the mainland parish of Canisbay upon marine historic environment assets. This assessment includes: • A review of current legislation and guidance concerning the marine heritage; • A review of existing data sources (DBA – desk based assessment) to identify known submerged sites in the area and the potential for unidentified submerged sites and landscapes; • A review and interpretation of remote sensing survey data to check for any sites identified by the DBA and to identify any previously unknown cultural heritage remains that show in the survey data; • An assessment of the importance of any identified sites and landscapes; • Identification and assessment of the significance of any potential impacts (including direct, indirect, cumulative and residual) of the proposed development on the above, and • Recommend mitigation strategies (for guidance purposes) to avoid or reduce impacts on any identified sites or palaeo-landscapes to a level where there are none or they are not significant. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The DBA covered the proposed lease and cable corridor areas (see Figure 1). Any items identified outside but close to the development area have been included in this report. This was to identify any sites that might be directly affected by the proposed development and their immediate context. The principal reference sources examined for this assessment were: • The National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS), using the Canmore database website; http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/; • The local Sites and Monuments Record using the Highland Council website; http://her.highland.gov.uk/; • Statutory lists, registers and designated areas, including List of Scheduled Ancient Monuments, Designated Wrecks and Historic Marine Protected Areas; • UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) wreck register and relevant nautical charts; • Marine Scotland; • DEFRA; • Heath/Ferguson private wreck database, which contains material not published by Ferguson (see Ferguson, 1991) and has been added to by Heath and Ferguson as new discoveries of wreck sites have been made; • Larn, R. & Larn, B. (1998) The Ship Wreck Index of Great Britain & Ireland Vol.4 Scotland (SIBI); • Whittaker I.G. (1998) Off Scotland: a comprehensive record of maritime and aviation losses in Scottish waters, Edinburgh, and • The Bulletins of the Caithness Field Club, available at http://www.caithness.org/caithnessfieldclub/bulletins/linkindex.htm and other readily available archaeological and historical reports, databases and publications (such as Houston, 1996; Omand, 1989) and, where used, will be cited in the report. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Agreement for Lease Area |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Offshore Cable Corridor | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Consenting | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Cultural, Heritage and Marine Archaeology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geophysical | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | echo sounder | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Side-scan sonar | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Magnetic Anomalies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seismic reflection | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Cultural Heritage | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Protection of Wrecks Act (UK) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Protection of Military Remains Act (UK) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act (UK) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Shipwrecks | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Aircraft | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Orkney | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Pentland Firth | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 58.6737 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.0882 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 58.6549 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.1641 |
| 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 | Meygen | |
| Individual name | Ed Rollings | |
| Position name | Environment and Consents Manager | |
| Ed.Rollings@meygen.com | ||
| 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 | Crown Estate Scotland | |
| Delivery point | Quartermile Two, 2nd Floor, 2 Lister Square | |
| Postal code | EH3 9GL | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| enquiries@crownestatescotland.com | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | ORCA Marine | |
| Individual name | Nick Card MA MIFA FSA Scot | |
| Delivery point | Orkney College East Road Kirkwall Orkney KW15 1LX | |
| Postal code | KW15 1LX | |
| Ed.Rollings@meygen.com | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/CES-129/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | restricted | |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | 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. | http://www.marinedataexchange.com/pages/terms-of-use.aspx |
| 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. | http://www.marinedataexchange.com/pages/terms-of-use.aspx | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2026-04-17 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-12 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2015-05-07 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Profile |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |