SPARC_Landscape Research Centre Archive_2020

The Landscape Research Centre, led by Dominic Powlesland, was registered as a charity in 1980 (Registered Charity number 326710 - Registered Company number 01852824) to promote research into the evolution of the landscape from the Palaeolithic to the present, and to publish the results. Most work so far has been under the banner of the Heslerton Parish Project, a research framework established in 1980 to provide a research context for a series of large, seasonal, open-area rescue excavations undertaken ahead of mineral extraction in the Vale of Pickering in eastern Yorkshire. The LRC is undertaking remote-sensing projects employing established technologies that include air photography and ground-based geophysics, as well as new technologies such as thermal and multi-spectral surveys designed to identify the physical resources relating to human occupation of the landscape without physical intervention. In addition, the LRC carries out large scale rescue archaeology and smaller research projects, investigating sites threatened through mineral extraction, agriculture and drainage schemes which have a significant but less visible impact on the archaeological resource than, for instance, the redevelopment of our urban centres.

The dataset published here (and viewable online through the LRC's interactive map) includes the magnetometry/gradiometry outputs in georeferenced tiff files, the inundation levels for the region in georeferenced tiff files, the extent of the sands and gravels in the region in georeferenced tiff files, and the polyline interpretation of the various datasets in geojson files. Though the original files were produced in OSGB-36, two projections have been archived for each file: OSGB-36 EPSG 27700 and WGS-84 EPSG 4326.