Principal Datasets

Principal Datasets

HERs incorporate information derived from a wide range of datasets, taking both digital and non-digital forms and including spatial and non-spatial information. Some of these datasets are essential and must be referenced in all HERs.

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  • Designated Heritage Assets

    Designated Heritage Assets All HERs are expected to include information about designated heritage assets. This information should be derived from the organisation by which the legal designation is...

  • Local Heritage Lists

    Local Heritage Lists Many organisations in the UK create and maintain lists of non-designated heritage assets. They take many different forms and can be compiled by various organisations including...

  • Grey Literature

    Grey Literature Unpublished reports, often referred to as ‘grey literature’, detail the results of fieldwork and research. Since there is usually a considerable time-lag between fieldwork and/or...

  • Research Results

    Research Results HERs are research resources but do not generally undertake their own research. However, the results of research projects undertaken by academics, volunteers or local heritage...

  • Portable Antiquities Scheme Data

    Portable Antiquities Scheme Data The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is run by the British Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales to encourage the recording of archaeological objects found by...

  • Physical Geography

    Physical Geography There are a number of different datasets which an HER should incorporate into its GIS order to help visualise and understand the physical geography of the landscape within which...

  • Maps

    Maps Historical mapping is a vital tool in helping us to understand and interpret the historic environment, and many of the entries in an HER will be informed by such mapping. Maps have been...

  • Photographic Collections

    Photographic Collections HERs may hold or have access to collections of colour or black-and-white photographs and slides, digital photographs and videos derived from fieldwork or surveys, or from...

  • Museum Collections

    Museum Collections Museums hold collections of objects and in England are usually the primary location for archaeological archives resulting from fieldwork relating to their sphere of interest....

  • Record Office Collections

    Record Office Collections Record offices, whether county based as in England and Wales, national as in Northern Ireland, or the various unitary and joint archives in Scotland, hold documents,...

  • Tabulated Overview of Datasets

    Tabulated Overview of Datasets Non-Historic Environment-Specific Datasets The table below indicates base mapping and other geospatial datasets commonly presented alongside HER datasets. Description...