id
	12857
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12857
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Project SAMPHIRE: Crowd Sourcing Maritime Archaeology data off Scotland's West Coast
Creator
	McCarthy, John
	Benjamin, Jonathan
Date
	2019
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Perhaps the greatest barrier to effective management of underwater cultural heritage is the lack of data on the nature and location of offshore archaeological resources. This is a problem shared with terrestrial archaeology, but is particularly acute due to the limitations of survey techniques in the underwater environment. In Scotland <15% of known ship losses from the last 200 years have been located and the record is far less comprehensive for earlier periods, verging on a near total data gap. Most known archaeological sites in Scottish waters have been discovered through large-scale sonar survey of relatively low resolution and a considerable bias has been introduced in the archaeological record; this has favored the discovery and documentation of larger and more recent, often upstanding, metal shipwrecks. This article presents the methods and results from a three-year project designed to reduce this bias by demonstrating large-scale prospecting for maritime archaeology through a community-based crowd-sourcing approach. Project SAMPHIRE (the Scottish Atlantic Maritime Past: Heritage, Investigation, Research and Education Project) was geographically focused on the west coast of the Scottish mainland and was undertaken between 2013 and 2015, resulting in a large number of new archaeological discoveries, including shipwrecks, aircraft, and other material of a much more varied nature than what is typically found through large-scale hydrographic surveys.
Is Part Of
	The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
Cited by
	11112
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2017.1387620
Issn
	1556-4894
Issue
	2
Pages
	267-290
Uri
	https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2017.1387620
Volume
	14
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/2AK8HWF8/item-list

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