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Metadata: 2012, Orca Marine, Brough Head Wave Farm, Marine Cultural Heritage Baseline Assessment
Abstract:
The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) was commissioned by Xodus Group to provide a baseline assessment of the marine historic environment assets that may be affected by a proposed marine renewable energy development, which forms part of a wave farm at Brough Head, off the north-west coast of Mainland Orkney. The area to be assessed is around Outshore Point, between Point of Howana Geo, Northdyke, and Sand Geo, Marwick. Scientific Underwater Logistics And Diving (SULA Diving) were requested by ORCA to carry out a Desk Based Assessment (DBA) of the possible submerged cultural heritage along the offshore cable route. This assessment will identify any sites of cultural heritage significance that might be affected by the proposed development and make some initial suggestions for managing any identified issues and impacts concerning the cultural heritage resource.
Data holder:
Crown Estate Scotland
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 39068 |
| 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. | 2012, Orca Marine, Brough Head Wave Farm, Marine Cultural Heritage Baseline 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. | 5c2fe983-7a46-4fec-a251-438400ffa196 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | CES-58 |
| 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 | 2012-08-23 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2012-08-23 |
| 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 to provide a baseline assessment of the marine historic environment assets that may be affected by a proposed marine renewable energy development, which forms part of a wave farm at Brough Head, off the north-west coast of Mainland Orkney. The area to be assessed is around Outshore Point, between Point of Howana Geo, Northdyke, and Sand Geo, Marwick. Scientific Underwater Logistics And Diving (SULA Diving) were requested by ORCA to carry out a Desk Based Assessment (DBA) of the possible submerged cultural heritage along the offshore cable route. This assessment will identify any sites of cultural heritage significance that might be affected by the proposed development and make some initial suggestions for managing any identified issues and impacts concerning the cultural heritage resource. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Coverage of geophysical surveys available to ORCA is shown in Figure 1. The combined datasets all cover the development area. The methods, resolution limitations and results of the subsea surveys by Aspect Land and Hydrographic Surveys were presented in a report (Thomson & Campbell, 2011). A summary of the rationale, survey methods, data processing and limitations is reproduced below from the report. On the instructions of RPS Consulting, Aspect Surveys mobilised two inshore survey vessels Remote Sensor and Marine Sensor at Stromness, Orkney for the conduct of A4806 geophysical site survey off the northwest coast of Mainland Orkney around Brough Head in August 2011 (Thomson & Campbell, 2011: 3). The boundary of the survey area to be reviewed by ORCA under contract from Xodus Group Ltd lies between the inshore limit of the existing Marine Coastguard Agency (MCA) data (the 26m contour) and the 5m contour, which is the principal area of interest for siting Oyster wave generators (which will roughly be at the 13m contour). ORCA examined the data between the northings 1020000N and 1024000N, which gave a buffer zone of c. 200m to the north and south of the project area. The geophysical instruments used included a multi-beam echosounder (MBES) and a side scan sonar (SSS) interfaced with a magnetometer. No sub-bottom profiler had been used due to the substrate being largely bedrock (e-mail from Peter Tipler, Xodus Group). The objective of the surveys was to provide geophysical data to determine geological conditions and hazards affecting the planning, design and installation of the marine energy project around Outshore Point. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | 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 | Side-scan sonar | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Magnetics | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bathymetry and Elevation | |
| 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 | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Land cover | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 59.1031611 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.3256041 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 59.0816984 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.4006049 |
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| enquiries@thecrownestate.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 | Crown Estate Scotland | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 260 6070 | |
| enquiries@crownestatescotland.com | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Orca Marine | |
| enquiries.orce@orkney.uhi.ac.uk | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Crown Estate Scotland | |
| Phone | +44 (0)131 260 6070 | |
| enquiries@crownestatescotland.com | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Xodus Group Ltd | |
| info@xodusgroup.com | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/CES-58/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| 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 | There will be no limitations when published on the Marine Data Exchange | |
| 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. | Data Must be used in accordance to the Marine Data Exchange's Terms of Use: https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use |
| 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. | 2021-05-17 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-05-02 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-05-01 |
| 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 |