Description

Englands Historic Seascapes is an ALSF project initiated by English Heritage to take an established technique of land management, Historic Landscape Characterisation, into the marine zone. Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to develop a methodology for seascape characterisation, using a pilot area in Liverpool Bay. The resulting characterisation is presented as a series of GIS layers, supported by multimedia. Seascape characterisation can be used to alert aggregate resource managers to historic environment issues affecting their areas of interest, and to help in the scoping of EIA's