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Cultural-historical remains are remains of human activities in ancient times and tell about our common history. Through the Historic Environment Act (1988:950), cultural-historical remains have automatic protection and may not be damaged or destroyed. They are found all over the country and information about them is an important basis for knowledge in many different contexts. This is an incipient data set that does not yet have a valid specification.
Description
Through the Historic Environment Act (1988:950), ancient remains have automatic protection and may not be damaged or destroyed. Cultural-historical remains can be found throughout the country and information about them is an important basis for knowledge in many different contexts.
Work is underway to produce a national specification for cultural-historical remains, which will then become a basic data set in the National Geodata Platform.
Often, the collective term remains is used, which includes both ancient remains and other cultural-historical remains. The difference between these is that ancient remains are protected in the Cultural Environment Act. The latter are not, because they do not meet all the requirements of the law, but they are nonetheless culturally and historically valuable and must be shown consideration.
The data set contains the remains that have been found and registered. This means that there are remains that are missing from the register because they have not yet been found. Worth noting is that ancient remains are protected even if they are not discovered or registered. New information is continuously added to the data set.
Most of the registered information on cultural-historical remains has been collected analogically and therefore has poor or unknown measurement quality. The accompanying quality information is therefore important to consider when using the information.
The data set includes e.g. type of bequest, identity, geographical information, quality parameters, antiquarian assessment and status information.
The geometries of the residue information consist of points, lines, and surfaces. That different geometries are used is due to older registration practices where remains less than 20 meters were set as a point on the map and certain objects, e.g. travel routes as a line. Points and lines therefore actually have a larger distribution than the geometric object. A standard distribution for these is specified in the value distribution uncertainty.
The data set is not legally binding but must be used as a signaling system.
Status: Test 1
Schedule: Approved specification in 2024
Responsible: Swedish national heritage board
National specifications
The testing period has passed and updating is ongoing. Publication of the National specification is planned for May.
Documents:
- National data product specification Cultural-historical remains Test 1 (in swedish, pdf, new window)
- Information exchange (in swedish, new window)
- Specification for searching and retrieving reference data cultural-historical remains (in Swedish, pdf, new window)
- The item type list (in Swedish, pdf, new window)