52120576-887b-3968-8d25-2918424629fb English dataset Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk pointOfContact 2025-12-05 MEDIN 3.1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2021-01-06 revision WGS 84 Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm: Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment of CPT and Borehole Logs 2020-03-06 publication 2020-03-06 revision 2010-07-28 creation wessexar1-385672 http://oasis.ac.uk 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. Wessex Archaeology info@wessexarch.co.uk owner Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk custodian Wessex Archaeology info@wessexarch.co.uk originator Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk distributor notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2025-12-05 revision Protected sites GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2021-09-28 revision Marine archaeology SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2021-09-28 revision renewable energy GEMET 2011-07-06 revision otherRestrictions Restrictions Apply otherRestrictions Terms and Conditions apply to reuse. English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 society 0.83324432373047 0.91976165771484 53.227412682397 53.275273672172 SeaVox salt and freshwater body gazetteer 2021-01-06 creation North Sea 2010-07-28 2010-08-27 SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2021-01-06 revision unknown Wessex Archaeology (2010) Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm: Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment of CPT and Borehole Logs, 62557.01. Wessex Archaeology: Salisbury Documents PDF https://doi.org/10.5284/1078972 Link to resource download dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication unknown This metadata was prepared by the creator entered into the OASIS system hosted by the Archaeology Data Service.