aea6a1b9-aa57-454b-935f-8b2b8a4e5ad2 English dataset Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk pointOfContact 2025-02-24 MEDIN 3.1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2021-01-06 revision WGS 84 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2021-01-06 revision OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Digital Data from the Land Beneath the Sea Palaeolandscapes Project (Unpath'd Waters), 2016-2024 2025-02-24 publication COLL_ID_1007678 This collection comprises of text, spreadsheet and GIS data from The Unpath'd Waters Palaeolandscapes Data Package, which was compiled from multiple sources between 2016 and 2024 and serves as the foundation for the palaeolandscape features represented in the simulation model for work package 3.3 Land Beneath the Sea. The data package has been developed to facilitate access to a broad range of datasets covering the Late Pleistocene to Holocene submerged landscapes of the southern North Sea. Users are strongly encouraged to access the original datasets whenever possible. The collection includes several shapefiles covering the UK and Dutch southern North Sea from the Latest Pleistocene to the Early Holocene, a time when the southern North Sea was a terrestrial environment. The shapefiles include a Palaeolandscape Features file and a Peat Occurrence file, which depict channels, lakes, and estuaries derived from various sources. These sources include the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project, research and seismic mapping conducted at the Submerged Landscapes Research Centre at the University of Bradford (such as the ERC-funded Europe’s Lost Frontiers project), and information from open-access windfarm reports and datasets. Most features are "negative," such as palaeochannels, representing depressions in the landscape, and are included in the shapefile Unpath’d Waters Palaeolandscape Features. Positive features (e.g., high ground) are stored in a separate shapefile, Unpath’d Waters Positive Palaeolandscape Features. Features not derived from seismic data were digitized from maps in open-access reports or academic publications. Where original files were unavailable, data was georeferenced and digitized. The collection of external data and digitization of raw geophysical information was completed in stages as new data became available. Features were merged into a single layer with a standardized attribute table that includes attributes such as type, relative age, source, and access date. Additionally, the collection includes archaeological finds and research boreholes from the Submerged Landscapes Research Centre, along with references to other datasets. These resources can be integrated to visualize and study the submerged landscape of the southern North Sea. University of Bradford SAFSBradford@bradford.ac.uk owner Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk custodian University of Bradford SAFSBradford@bradford.ac.uk originator Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk distributor notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2025-04-23 revision NDGO0005 NDGO0005 2025-04-23 revision Protected sites GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2021-09-28 revision Marine archaeology SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2021-09-28 revision otherRestrictions This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. otherRestrictions This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 society 10.546875 -1.142578 50.429518 57.821355 SeaVox salt and freshwater body gazetteer 2021-01-06 creation North Sea 2021-11-01 2024-11-30 SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2021-01-06 revision inapplicable Geographic Information System Shapefile Text or Plaintext PDF Delimited CSV https://doi.org/10.5284/1126107 A link to the dataset 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 Conforms true This dataset was collected by University of Bradford and provided to the Archaeology Data Service for long term archive and management