cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.15156/bio/sh164048.07fu
title: SH164048.07FU

description: UNITE provides a unified way for delimiting, identifying, communicating, and working with DNA-based Species Hypotheses (SH). All fungal ITS sequences in the international nucleotide sequence databases are clustered to approximately the species level by applying a set of dynamic distance values (<0.5 - 3.0%). All species hypotheses are given a unique, stable name in the form of a DOI, and their taxonomic and ecological annotations are verified through distributed, web-based third-party annotation efforts. SHs are connected to a taxon name and its classification as far as possible (phylum, class, order, etc.) by taking into account identifications for all sequences in the SH. An automatically or manually designated sequence is chosen to represent each such SH. These sequences are released (https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php) for use by the scientific community in, for example, local sequence similarity searches and next-generation sequencing analysis pipelines. The system and the data are updated automatically as the number of public fungal ITS sequences grows.
DOI: 10.5284/1000037
title: Warwickshire assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas

description: The aim of this project was to identify, characterise and digitally map available information on Warwickshire's archaeological resource in areas of past, present and potential future aggregates extraction in order to enhance existing baseline data, to improve archaeological mitigation of future extraction proposals in the county, and to promote better public understanding of and engagement with these issues.
DOI: 10.5284/1000046
title: Marine Class Description and principles of selection for aggregate producing areas

description: Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by English Heritage to carry out Phase I of a project on a means of selecting sites that are sufficiently important in archaeological terms to warrant special measures if they are implicated in proposed marine aggregate dredging. Such special measures could include protection by exclusion zones, recording and recovery, or some other form of mitigation. The project is funded with the support of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.
DOI: 10.5284/1000048
title: Hampshire - assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas

description: This project was carried out by Cornwall County Council's Historic Environment Service between March 2006 and March 2008 in partnership with Hampshire County Council Environment Department under Objective 2 of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The assessment consists of a consideration of the archaeology within the aggregate producing areas of the county through analysis of data contained in the Hampshire Archaeology and Historic Buildings Record (AHBR). In nine of these areas AHBR data was enhanced through systematic mapping from aerial photographs as part of English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (NMP).
DOI: 10.5284/1000003
title: Peak Forest Tramway and Cromford and High Peak Railway

description: A Heritage Audit was undertaken for the Peak Forest Tramway and the Cromford and High Peak Railway by ARCUS, in conjunction with Derbyshire County Council. The Peak Forest Railway was opened in 1796 to link the limestone quarries at Doveholes with Bugworth Canal Basin 6 miles to the northeast. It was one of the earliest mineral railways in Britain to link with an inland waterway system and to use iron rails. The route, engineered by Benjamin Outram, incorporates the Stoddart Tunnel at Chapel en le Frith, which has been identified as the second oldest railway tunnel in the world. The Cromford and High Peak Railway opened in 1830 and was one of the earliest in Britain. It measured 33 miles in length and crossed the White Peak of Derbyshire, rising to a height of over 1200ft by means of a series of inclined planes with fixed steam engines. The level central section was created by the engineer Josias Jessop, with huge embankments and narrow cuttings. Wagons were pulled along this section initially by horses and later by steam engines.
DOI: 10.5284/1000019
title: Colne Valley Park Historic Landscape Characterisation

description: The Colne Valley Park Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) project was carried out by Buckinghamshire County Council and Groundwork Trust of the Colne Valley Regional Park and was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as rebursed by English Heritage. The project complements the county HLC databases maintained by Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey County Councils. As well as providing a detailed and cohesive historic landscape characterisation for the Park, this database includes additional information on historic farmsteads and estates, boundaries, routeways and waterways. The report provides a detailed summary of this database focussing on the impact of aggregates extraction and settlement expansion in the twentieth century.
DOI: 10.5284/1000024
title: Aggregate extraction in Warwickshire

description: Aggregate Extraction in Warwickshire (also known as Extracting Warwickshire's Past) is a Warwickshire County Council project, supported by the English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project was designed to promote public and aggregate understanding and appreciation of past human activity within the aggregate extraction areas of Warwickshire.
DOI: 10.5284/1000054
title: Solent Aggregates to Outreach

description: The Aggregates to Outreach project has developed, distributed and delivered a series of presentations to groups and a teaching pack for educators based around national curriculum subjects. The project has generated three main reports - project scoping, trialling and final reports.
DOI: 10.5284/1000055
title: Goblin Combe, North Somerset

description: This project was a jointly funded purchase of Cleeve Wood, Goblin Combe, North Somerset, which contains a SSSI and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Funding for the project came from English Heritage, English Nature and the countryside Agency Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Currently the project is developing a management plan for the preservation and long term use of the woodlands cultural and environmental assets.
DOI: 10.5284/1000056
title: Securing a Future for Maritime Archaeological Archives

description: At present there is a critical lack of long-term, accessible and secure homes for maritime archaeological archives (the artefacts, samples and documentary and digital records from the many investigations undertaken in the marine zone around the UK). There is a severe lack of capacity in our museums and archives to curate maritime archaeological archives and there is a parallel lack of knowledge about the scale and extent of the problem. Many maritime archaeological investigations have been on-going for a number of years, during which there has been no available support in archiving standards and facilities. This has lead to a situation where some of the most important maritime archaeological archives have no available facilities for their long-term care and sustained public access. They remain at risk of dispersal, physical deterioration, and even private sale.
DOI: 10.5284/1000061
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Wiltshire

description: Wiltshire County Archaeology Service began work on the Wiltshire Historic Towns Survey in August 1999 as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. The project comprised a survey of the historic towns of Wiltshire, including those in the Unitary Authority of Swindon Borough Council. In all, thirty-four towns were surveyed, including the five rural Roman towns and the city of Salisbury, between 1999 and 2004. The intention was to update a project sponsored in 1976 by the DoE which resulted in the publication of Wiltshire Towns: the archaeological potential (Haslam, 1976) so as to provide high-quality information about the archaeological potential of the towns for archaeologists and Local Planning Authorities.
DOI: 10.5284/1000044
title: The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy (VASLE) Project

description: Recently the role of metal-detected objects in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC). There are now thousands more artefacts and coins known than a decade ago which, in conjunction with fieldwork, have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the early medieval period. The VASLE project was the first attempt to examine this data on a national scale. Such an approach enables the detailed analysis of the nature of portable antiquities data, the biases within such datasets and the relationship between patterns of recovery and historic settlement.
DOI: 10.5284/1000060
title: Mucking - Prehistoric and Roman

description: Intensively excavated between 1965 and 1978, the Mucking, Essex campaigns led to open-area excavations across 18ha, and the site was renowned in its time as the largest excavation to date in Europe. What it revealed was a dense, multi-period landscape palimpsest ranging from Neolithic to Medieval times, but primarily involving later Bronze and Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement; in total, more than 44,000 features were excavated. Notable among these were over a thousand burials (including four Romano-British and two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries), the LBA South Rings enclosure, 110 roundhouses, a similar number of four- and six-post structures, and a Romano-British settlement with over twenty pottery kilns and associated structures and enclosure systems.
DOI: 10.5284/1000076
title: A Late Bronze Age Pottery Production Site and Settlement at Foster's Field, Tinney's Lane, Sherborne, Dorset

description: The data within this archive was produced by Exeter Archaeology during their 2002 excavations in advance of residential development at Foster's Field, Tinney's Lane, Sherborne, Dorset. This site proved to be a unique example of a Late Bronze Age pottery production site and multi-phase prehistoric settlement. The data that has been made available consists of publication and non-publication material and includes specialist reports, spreadsheet data and images generated during post-excavation analysis.
DOI: 10.5284/1000078
title: Archaeological Archives Forum Papers

description: A series of reports from the Archaeological Archives Forum are being archived and made available by the Archaeology Data Service. These include 'Access to Archaeological Archives: A study for Resource and the Archaeological Archives Forum' by Val Bott (2003) and 'Archaeological Archives: A guide to best practice in creation, compilation, transfer and curation' by Duncan H. Brown (2007).
DOI: 10.5284/1000083
title: Maritime Archaeology Access and Learning Workshops

description: There is a clear need to promote public knowledge, interest and engagement in issues surrounding marine archaeology and aggregates, to address this the Maritime Archaeology Access and Learning Workshops were developed and delivered to organisations and individuals who have the potential to organise activities and events that could include the themes of marine archaeology and aggregates. By informing and educating the organisers it increases capacity to deliver marine related activities, and directly enables a much wider public audience to be impacted.
DOI: 10.5284/1000085
title: Hilton of Cadboll

description: The Hilton of Cadboll Pictish cross-slab is thought to have been erected at the Chapel site in the late 8th century AD and, after breaking its tenon, to have been re-erected here in the 12th century. It is thought to have fallen in a storm and one side was defaced and re-carved with a memorial in the 17th century, leaving the fragments of the Pictish carving and the lower portion in-situ. Many thousands of carved fragments and the lower portion of the cross-slab were retrieved from the site during excavations in 1998 and 2001. The aim of the excavations was to retrieve all the fragments and record their location to the nearest 0.5m square in the hope that this would aid the reconstruction of the lost cross-face. All the fragments have been catalogued and photographed and made available to the public.
DOI: 10.5284/1000075
title: Willington, South Derbyshire

description: The Willington, South Derbyshire project has comprised the analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age domestic remains and evidence of fire clearance of the area in the third and second millenia B.C. The Neolithic occupation was mainly characterised by an assemblage of Peterborough ware from pits and spreads. An extensive radiocarbon programme has confirmed the theory that Peterborough ware had become fully developed in the 4th millenium B.C., and did not extend into the Late Neolithic of the 3rd millenium B.C. The appearance of the Peterborough ware occupation of the site is consistednt with the national date for the start of the Peterborough ware tradition (c 3600 B.C.). There are some indications that the Ebbsfleet style of Peterborough ware did only appear at the start of the tradition.
DOI: 10.5284/1000084
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Derbyshire

description: Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils launched a survey of small towns in the two counties in 1997 as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. In Derbyshire 22 small towns were surveyed to provide high quality data about the archaeological potential of the towns and their historical development for archaeologists and the local planning authorites. The reports utilised information from the county Historic Environment Record and a range of accessible secondary sources; no fieldwork was undertaken. The value of the reports for the identification of conservation areas and the preparation of conservation area appraisals has also been recognised. The project was carried out on behalf of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils who act as archaeological advisors and maintain the Historic Environment Records for the respective counties. The project was managed by The County Archaeological Officer for Nottinghamshire.
DOI: 10.5284/1000087
title: Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast

description: The aim of the project was to catalogue all the finds known to have been recovered from the North Wirral shore in the Meols area, to interpret these in the light of modern scholarship and to publish the results. The majority of the finds were recovered during the 19th century from the eroding coastline at Meols. Many finds were published in the 19th century, along with topographic observations.
DOI: 10.5284/1000088
title: Dendrochronology Database

description: This resource consists of the tree-ring dates for 3300 buildings in the United Kingdom, ranging from cathedrals to cottages and barns. The database holds period, location and reference information for each record. It also includes a few buildings that have been dated by high precision radiocarbon dating, and the names of buildings for which dating was attempted but not successful.
DOI: 10.5284/1000089
title: Database of Implement Petrology for Britain

description: The Database of Implement Petrology for Britain contains records assembled by the Implement Petrology Committee of the Council for British Archaeology between the 1930s and the mid 1980s. The database contains contains the results of examining more than 7,500 stone implements from the British Isles. These artefacts range in date from the earliest Neolithic to the Bronze Age; in type from polished battle axes to net sinkers; in quality from the finest jadeite axe to the crudest roughout; and in composition from mudstone to porcellanite. Many come from known rock sources and places of manufacture, as far apart as Land's End in England, the Northern Isles in Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands. Together these implements comprise an extraordinarily extensive and varied cross-section of the stone tools and weapons made and used in Britain over a period of at least 3,000 years.
DOI: 10.5284/1000092
title: Fading Rock Art Landscapes: evaluating the database in rock-art landscape research

description: This archive has been created to disseminate the results of a research project which aimed to assess the rate and nature of degradation of prehistoric rock-art through a combination of visual and microscopic analytical techniques and accumulated observation. Data within the archive relates to on an example of prehistoric rock art on Rombalds Moor in West Yorkshire. Data available consists of JPG images that sit alongside an article which gives more background to the project. The research was carried out by a team at the University of Durham and funded through the British Academy.
DOI: 10.5284/1000094
title: Quantifying the Functional Utility of Handaxe Symmetry: An Experimental Butchery Approach

description: A series of experiments to test the relationship between Acheulean handaxe form and effectiveness for butchery and contribute to the continuing discussion regarding the factors influencing handaxe form. Using sixty handaxes, thirty fallow deer carcasses and two butchers a dataset was produced which permitted the statistical analysis of the relationship between effectiveness (measured using the proxies of time and the scorings of the butchers) and nine measures of handaxe morphology (frontal and side symmetry, weight, length, breadth, thickness, percentage of the circumference worked, degree of thinning and degree of elongation). The archived dataset comprises a time log for the use of each handaxe (derived from video footage of the experiments) which details the time taken to complete the various processes involved in the butchery of half a deer carcass, digital images of the experimental handaxe assemblage and summary spreadsheets of the data collected - i.e. time and subjective scorings - for each butcher.
DOI: 10.5284/1000097
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Essex: Historic Towns Assessment Report

description: Essex County Council Archaeological Department (now Essex County Council Historic Environment Branch) launched the Essex Historical Towns Survey in 1995, as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. The project comprised a survey of all the smaller towns in Essex, including the area that is now the Thurrock Unitary Authority. The intention was to provide high quality information about the archaeological potential of towns for archaeologists and local planning authorities. Between 1995 and 1999 thirty-two towns were surveyed in Essex. Colchester was subject to a separate survey, undertaken by Colchester Museum.
DOI: 10.5284/1000110
title: Early Years Children's Book: Derek the Dredger

description: The project aimed to expand knowledge, interest and engagement in issues surrounding marine archaeology and aggregates through an early years children's story book. Both the marine aggregate industry and maritime archaeology were used as key themes to develop the concept of 'Derek the Dredger and the Underwater Archaeologists'. The book is an illustrated full colour story book that can be used as bedtime reading with younger children or as an aid to learning for slightly older children.
DOI: 10.5284/1000122
title: ALSF Dissemination: Benchmark Report Theme 4B. Management of extraction - Sustainable Heritage

description: The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) was introduced in 2002, initially as a two-year pilot scheme, to provide funds to relieve the environmental impacts of aggregate extraction; past, present and future. The ALSF is distributed on behalf of DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) by, amongst other bodies, English Heritage, who allocate funds against ALSF Objective 2 (Promoting environmentally-friendly extraction and transport) and Objective 3 (Addressing the environmental impacts of past extraction). In 2007 DEFRA commissioned the ALSF Dissemination Project, to bring together and disseminate the results of all research funded by the ALSF during the six years between 2002 and 2007. This project, Sustainable Heritage - Aggregates Extraction and Management of the Historic Environment, is one of three linked projects covering the Heritage theme. The project reviews the impact that ALSF projects aimed at developing new guidance, standards and best practice have had on the aggregates industry, archaeological curators and practitioners. The report provides a critique and summary of the suite of guidance to industry undertaken through the ALSF, placing such guidance in the context of wider research into the historic environment.
DOI: 10.5284/1000095
title: Creswell Crags: Management of Pleistocene Archives and Collections

description: This digital archive contains the project report for the audit and assessment of the Pleistocene Collection excavated from Creswell Crags and the immediate Limestone Heritage area. The project was undertaken in order to facilitate the effective management, research, interpretation and presentation of the resource.
DOI: 10.5284/1000096
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Bedfordshire and Luton

description: The Bedfordshire and Luton Extensive Urban Survey was part of a national programme of work coordinated by English Heritage. The project aims to re-evaluate the urban archaeological resource and to provide comprehensive and consistent base-line information against which research, regeneration and land use planning objectives may be set. The survey of the historic towns of Bedfordshire and Luton was funded by English Heritage. The Heritage and Environment Section of Bedfordshire County Council commissioned Albion Archaeology on behalf of the County Council and Luton Borough Council to undertake assessments of the 12 historic towns in the county. The project was managed by the County Archaeological Officer. Research and preparation of the assessments took place between 2001 and 2003, with a final revision and editing in early 2005. The project was carried out on behalf of Bedfordshire County and Luton Borough Councils who act as archaeological advisors on planning matters and are responsible for manitaining the County Sites and Monuments Record.
DOI: 10.5284/1000106
title: Late Quaternary Landscape History of the Swale - Ure Washlands

description: The project has studied the fluvial and landscape evolution of the area known as the Swlae-Ure Washland and the impact of human activity there from Devensian deglaciation through to the end of the Medieval Period.
DOI: 10.5284/1000116
title: ALSF Dissemination: Benchmark Report Theme 4A. Rich Deposits - Aggregates Extraction, Research and the Knowledge Pool

description: Quarrying and extraction of aggregates on land and at sea affects buried archaeological remains and the historic landscape. Since 2002, substantial sums from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund have been spent on research projects which aim to help the aggregates industry and heritage sector predict where archaeological remains might be and develop ways of mitigating these effects. Focussed on the places and types of archaeological assets which are affected by aggregates extraction, the dividend has been new knowledge and new ways of exploring, understanding, explaining and challenging our thoughts about our past. This report examines the benefits and impacts of this work.
DOI: 10.5284/1000121
title: Discovering the Ancient Don Gorge

description: Discovering the Ancient Don Gorge was delivered by Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with InHeritage, South Yorkshire Archaeology Service and Creswell Heritage Trust, on behalf of The Don Gorge Strategic Partnership. It was successfully completed between July 2007 and February 2008, and delivered a number of educational and innovative outreach products, such as the comic and graphic novel, free myfind postcards, science and archaeology sessions for schools, an interactive website called Yourfind, with an online artefact gallery and web-blog and video diary space for schools, and a travelling exhibition designed to go into libraries and schools in the Don Gorge.