Recording Modern Shipwrecks as Heritage
Author(s): Martin C Newman
Year: 2013
Summary
English Heritage, with funding from MEDIN (the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network), undertook a project to extend the coverage of the maritime component of the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) from its previous 1945 cut-off date to the present day bringing it into line with its terrestrial equivalent. This utilised a bespoke database and associated GIS layer to hold the results of desk-based research pulling together information from a variety of sources for both identified wrecks and reported losses. This paper will look both the database and GIS recording issues involved in the project, and some of the individual wrecks recorded as part of it. The results are disseminated online via the PastScape website and the issues discussed will include the sensitivities involved in making a public record of recent tragedies.
Cite this Record
Recording Modern Shipwrecks as Heritage. Martin C Newman. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428315)
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Keywords
General
Database
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Modern
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Shipwreck
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Post 1945
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 578