Managing Archaeology in the Planning Process

QGIS Stylesheets

A zoomable, scaling set of Stylesheets for QGIS - free to use as you wish^*

Crow Archaeology is expert in the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) heritage data in planning. We use the open source QGIS Project for it's power, flexibility, feature richness and cost efficiency (it's free...).

Who are the stylesheets for?

To support our professional and volunteer communities we have developed a set of Stylesheets (QML) for QGIS which define display symbology and labelling characteristics for Historic England's Designated Heritage Asset GIS data.

Specifically, they are aimed at small companies, heritage organisations, self-employed contractors, third-sector organisations and voluntary groups.

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^* released under Creative Commons non-commercial licence

Designed for Historic England Data

Historic England make freely available their GIS data on Designated Heritage Assets under the Open Government Licence (OGLv3).

The data is available from directly Historic England, or indirectly from data.gov.uk (search term 'Historic England').

The data is supplied in the ESRI Shapefile format in compressed (zip) files and comprises:

World Heritage Sites
Scheduled Monuments
Listed Buildings
Registered Parks and Gardens
Battlefields
Protected Wreck Sites
Certificates of Immunity
Building Preservation Notices

About the Stylesheets

Our free to use QGIS Stylesheets have been designed to provide a scaling symbology and labelling scheme for Historic England's Designated Heritage Asset GIS data.

The QGI Stylesheets have been designed to be colour-blind friendly and to be used with the current long term build QGIS 3.10.4 'A Coruña'.

No third party GIS data is provided.

We recommend the use of OS Open Zoomstack for basemapping.

Currently only Stylesheets for Historic England data are available. We may look to develop Stylesheets for the data provided by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Cadw in due course.

The Sylesheets are free to use, edit, remix and distribute.

We regret that we cannot provide first line technical support to users of the provided Stylesheets. The Stylesheets may be withdrawn or edited by Crow Archaeology at any time.