Scheduled Monuments
Scheduled monuments are nationally important monuments and sites. The aim of scheduling is to preserve sites and monuments as far as possible in the form in which they have come down to us today. They are legally protected through the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. National importance takes account of a wide range of factors, including artistic, archaeological, architectural, historic, traditional, aesthetic, scientific and social. Guidance and criteria to assess national importance of monuments is set out by Scottish Ministers in The Scottish Historic Environment Policy. This data allows you to identify the approximate position, size and extent of scheduled monuments in Scotland.
dataset
https://inspire.hes.scot/AtomService/DATA/sam_scotland.zip
protocol: FILE:GEO
name: ESRI Shapefile Download
description: Download zip file with Scheduled Monuments shapefile, layer file and metadata
protocol: OGC:WMS
description: WMS service for Scheduled Monuments
protocol: OGC:WFS
description: WFS service for Scheduled Monuments
HESSM
eng
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Historic Environment Scotland is a Non Departmental Public Body responsible to Scottish Ministers for safeguarding the nation's built heritage and promoting its understanding and enjoyment.
boundaries
society
environment
Protected Sites
publication
2008-06-01
Protected Area
publication
2012-07-20
Ancient monuments
Historic Sites
Archaeology
publication
2006-04-03
Protected sites
publication
2008-06-01
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1882-08-18
creation
2001-01-01
revision
2020-01-29
weekly
Scheduling is an ongoing process. We assess and reassess monuments as our knowledge and understanding of what survives and its importance changes. Sometimes monuments are amended to bring the maps and descriptions up-to-date. Data is updated on weekly basis unless no cases have been brought forward. Designation polygons were originally derived from legal documentation. Amendments are informed by a combination of methods: field visits; differential GPS; aerial photography and OS mapping (Mastermap - scale 1:2500).
publication
2010-05-03
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This dataset is not in a conformed format (such as GML). However, it conforms to projection and metadata. Vertical data in metadata is currently from Chart Datum. The temporal extent of the data is not ended as this is a live dataset, which may change in the future. The version date of the data can be found under Temporal Extent.
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
This data is indicative only and reference should always be made to the legal documentation. It should be noted that amendments to the schedule are made frequently and that the information may change. This data is licensed under the UK Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
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]
GIS Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Longmore House, Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SH
United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
pointOfContact
GIS Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Longmore House, Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SH
United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
distributor
GIS Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Longmore House, Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SH
United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
pointOfContact
2020-07-08