2c1ece6f-06ec-47b4-a9a0-c85372a4926f eng series Ed Rollings Meygen Environment and Consents Manager Ed.Rollings@meygen.com pointOfContact 2015-05-07 MEDIN Discovery Profile 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::32631 2009 - 2011, ORCA, Inner Sound, Marine Cultural Heritage Environmental Impact Assessment 2011-08 creation Project266 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. Crown Estate Scotland Quartermile Two, 2nd Floor, 2 Lister Square Edinburgh EH3 9GL enquiries@crownestatescotland.com custodian Nick Card MA MIFA FSA Scot ORCA Marine Orkney College East Road Kirkwall Orkney KW15 1LX KW15 1LX Ed.Rollings@meygen.com originator notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Agreement for Lease Area Offshore Cable Corridor The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 Consenting The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15 revision 1 Cultural, Heritage and Marine Archaeology MEDIN Parameter Discipline Keywords 2012-06-09 revision 3 Geophysical Oregon Coastal Atlas Coastal Erosion Thesaurus discovery terms 2011-08-20 revision 1 echo sounder BODC parameter semantic model analytical method entity descriptions 2014-07-31 revision 84 Side-scan sonar Geo-Seas Seismic Methods 2011-01-29 revision 1 Magnetic Anomalies Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword variables 2007-04-18 revision 4 Seismic reflection SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2014-10-09 revision 86 Cultural Heritage MEDIN socio-economic governance objective categories 2013-08-23 revision 1 Protection of Wrecks Act (UK) Protection of Military Remains Act (UK) Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act (UK) Monitoring activity legislative drivers 2013-08-02 revision 7 Shipwrecks MIDA Coastal Erosion Thesaurus 2012-06-28 revision 1 Aircraft ICES Platform Codes 2014-10-10 revision 406 Orkney BODC administrative region names 2014-10-01 revision 39 Pentland Firth SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer 2013-04-23 revision 14 http://www.marinedataexchange.com/pages/terms-of-use.aspx restricted restricted http://www.marinedataexchange.com/pages/terms-of-use.aspx eng society structure -3.1641 -3.0882 58.6549 58.6737 2009-09-08 2011-10-01 Documents inapplicable https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/CES-129/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. series 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.