Identification

Title

Drainage Capacity of Soils Dataset for Archaeological Viewshed Analysis Study of Glengorm Area on the Isle of Mull, Scotland

Alternative title(s)

unknown

Abstract

This Drainage Capacity of Soils dataset provides drainage capacity information for soils in the Glengorm area of the Isle of Mull. This is part of a study conducted in the 1980s and 1990s which examined prehistoric ritual monument locations and their visibility across the landscape of the area. The study included the application of a GIS for viewshed analysis. Datasets incorporated into this study and application included soils, coast and lochs, coastline, drainage capacity of soils, land capability, rivers, elevation and slope aspects and distribution patterns of cairn, cist, duns, fort and stone sites.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/sharegeo/handle/10389/153

Unique resource identifier

code

unknown

codeSpace

unknown

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

Great Britain National Grid

code identifying the spatial reference system

Great Britain National Grid

Additional information source

Ruggles, C.L.N., Medyckyj-Scott, D.J. and Gruffydd, A. 1993 'Multiple viewshed analysis using GIS and its archaeological application: a case study in Northern Mull'. In J. Andresen, T. Madsen, and I. Scollar (eds) Computing the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology — CAA 92. Aarhus. 125-32.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Archaeology

Astronomy

Antiquity

Prehistory

Archaeological sites

Geographical information systems

GIS

Soils

Drainage

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.3044357300

East bounding longitude

-6.1362075806

North bounding latitude

56.6570756843

South bounding latitude

56.5588202948

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Vertical extent information

Minimum value

0

Maximum value

0

Coordinate reference system

authority code

code identifying the coordinate reference system

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

missing

End position

missing

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1982-04-29

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Soils for drainage capacity were captured from 1:50,000 soil survey maps for the Isle of Mull.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

10.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

This dataset can be downloaded from ShareGeo, which can be accessed via the Digimap Login. ShareGeo users must subscribe to Digimap Collections in order to access and download this dataset. Digimap Collections are available to all UK academic institutions. More information about subscriptions and access are available at http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/access/

Constraint set

Use constraints

This dataset was derived from an Isle of Mull soil survey, but not enough information available to ascertain if soil map contains any residual data from the Ordnance Survey? If it can be determined that there is, please read click the url below to read the Ordnance Survey Data Sub-licence Agreement with Digimap. http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/osterms.html

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

EDINA

email address

edina@ed.ac.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Tony Mathys

full postal address

EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 160 Causewayside

Edinburgh

EH9 1PR

Scotland

telephone number

(44) 0131 651 1443

facsimile number

(44) 0131 650 3308

email address

tony.mathys@ed.ac.uk

web address

http://edina.ac.uk/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2013-04-24

Metadata language

eng