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Wrecks on the Seabed
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he ALSF Wrecks on the Seabed project
is developing innovative methods to
assess, evaluate and record wrecks
within aggregate dredging areas. We have
advanced the use of high-resolution sidescan,
multibeam and magnetometer survey, in
combination with acoustic positioned ROV
and diver surveys, to provide information
that can be used to make decisions about
the character and importance of wreck sites,
and about mitigation. Another element of the
project has compared the results of geophysical
surveys at different line spacings and
instrument settings, to help guide industry.
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Seabed Prehistory
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eabed Prehistory is an ALSF project
administered by English Heritage and MIRO,
on behalf of ODPM. We are using survey
methods already in use by the aggregate industry
to investigate and understand deposits and
artefacts laid down when the seabed was still
land, more than 8,000 years ago. High resolution
shallow seismic surveys, vibrocoring and benthic
grabbing have been carried out and processed
using different methods to help understand
sediment architecture in aggregate dredging
zones off the Sussex coast, in the Eastern English
Channel, and off Great Yarmouth. The data is
being combined in order to provide guidance
to industry about how to avoid impacting
important archaeological remains.

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The Importance of Shipwrecks
S
hipwrecks are often found within or
close to aggregate dredging areas, but it
is not always clear how or why they
might be considered to be important. This
project, administered by English Heritage
with the support of the ALSF, has developed a
framework through which the archaeological
importance of shipwrecks can be gauged. The
framework is designed to be comprehensive
and transparent, and is based on a series of
questions that address all of the key phases
of the construction, life and demise of a ship.
The framework can be used within the EIA
process to help decide whether impacts on
shipwrecks will have a significant effect.

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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 EIAs.

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MAPA, in collaboration with English
Heritage, has recently introduced
a Protocol for Reporting Finds of
Archaeological Interest. Industry staff can
report their finds to Site Champions on every
wharf and vessel. The information is then
passed on to a Nominated Contact in each
BMAPA company, who alerts the archaeologists.
Archaeologists can then provide advice about
what the find might be, how it can best be
looked after, and about any other steps that
need to be taken. Wessex Archaeology is
providing a Protocol Implementation Service on
behalf of BMAPA, and the industry's awareness
of the Protocol is being increased through an
ALSF project administered by English Heritage.

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