National Record of the Historic Environment: Historic Land use Assessment

The Historic Land use Assessment (HLA) is a technique for helping understand the historic aspects of the landscape around us from an archaeological perspective. The HLA records the historical origins of the various components that make up the landscape, showing how they interrelate spatially and chronologically, and in doing so offers an insight into some of the processes that have created our modern landscape and enables us to recognise how features that survive from past events continue to influence the present. As such, the HLA is a key tool for understanding the historic landscape and complements other techniques of landscape assessment. In combination these enable a more holistic view of the landscape and its development over time to be achieved and approaches to landscape management and planning to be better integrated.

Citation proposal
. National Record of the Historic Environment: Historic Land use Assessment. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/53f43ea0-ed58-4529-a569-8eb76a04e599

Date ( Revision ): 2017-12-15

Identifier: RCAHMS HLA / 12-2017

Point of contact

Historic Environment Scotland

16 Bernard Terrace Edinburgh City of Edinburgh Council EH8 9NX United Kingdom

+44(0)1316621456

+44(0)1316621477

Website: HLAmap: Scotland's historic land use
HLA Map website

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular Irregular

Keywords

Landscape , Land-use , Historic

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Land use

Use limitation: This data is licensed under the UK Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/non-commercial-government-licence.htm

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: If this data is reproduced it must be attributed with the following: Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland - Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right [year]

Use limitation: This data is indicative only. It should be noted that information may change.

Distance: 40 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Denominator: 25000

Metadata language: eng English

Topic category

Environment
Society

Supplemental Information: HES maintains the National Record of the Historic Environment which collects, records and interprets information on the architectural, industrial, archaeological and maritime heritage of Scotland. The National Record hosts information gathered over more than a hundred years, and our archive offers a unique insight into the special nature of Scotland's Places.

Reference system identifier: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700

Distribution format

ESRI Shapefile (9.2 )

OnLine resource: HLAmap
Historic Land-use Assessment website providing online map viewer, link to download zone and full documentation including glossary.

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Description: Scotland

Conformance result

Date ( Revision ): 2017-12-15

Explanation: The Historic Land use Assessment (HLA) is a technique for helping understand the historic aspects of the landscape around us from an archaeological perspective. The HLA records the historical origins of the various components that make up the landscape, showing how they interrelate spatially and chronologically, and in doing so offers an insight into some of the processes that have created our modern landscape and enables us to recognise how features that survive from past events continue to influence the present. As such, the HLA is a key tool for understanding the historic landscape and complements other techniques of landscape assessment. In combination these enable a more holistic view of the landscape and its development over time to be achieved and approaches to landscape management and planning to be better integrated.

Pass: true

Statement: Historic Land-use Assessment is a new dataset created from the interpretation of multiple sources, including aerial photography and historic cartography.