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| Term | Parent Term | Scope Note | Code |
| marine | coastland | That area below low water level and inside territorial waters. The term includes saline waters within tidal estuaries. | CO1 |
| intertidal | coastland | That area between high and low water levels. | CO2 |
| above high water | coastland | Coastal area above high water level. | CO3 |
| saltmarsh | coastland | Includes saltings etc. | CO4 |
| cliff and related features | coastland | This refers to coastal cliffs. | CO5 |
| minimal cultivation | cultivated | Land use involving no operations likely to be damaging to archaeological remains. | CL1 |
| cultivation to a depth <0.25m | cultivated | Operations restricted to a depth of less than 25 centimetres. | CL2 |
| cultivation to a depth >0.25m | cultivated | Operations in excess of 25 centimetres. | CL3 |
| cultivated land | cultivated | Nature of operations undetermined. | CL4 |
| heathland | grassland heathland | Plant community which includes low shrubs, e.g. heathers, bilberry, gorse also the presence of bracken. | GH1 |
| undisturbed grassland | grassland heathland | If managed at all, then only to a low intensity, e.g. mowing, spraying etc involving operations which are not archaeologically damaging. | GH2 |
| disturbed grassland | grassland heathland | Areas of past and current land improvement, involving operations capable of disturbing the archaeology. | GH3 |
| regularly improved grassland | grassland heathland | Regularly cultivated and re-seeded grassland (but not including temporary grassland within arable rotation, for which use cultivated land) | GH4 |
| grassland undetermined | grassland heathland | Character or management not determined. | GH5 |
| running fresh water | open fresh water | River, stream, estuary above tidal (saline) influence. | FW1 |
| standing fresh water | open fresh water | Pond, lake, artificial lake, canal (if wet) etc. | FW2 |
| allotment | other | In use for small scale horticulture. | OT1 |
| building | other | In use as a building. | OT2 |
| built over | other | Site underlying a building or structure | OT3 |
| churchyard | other | Including ground in current use for burials and legally consecrated ground, e.g. graveyard, chapel-ground etc. | OT4 |
| garden | other | Including private and public. | OT5 |
| land boundary | other | Hedge, fence, wall etc. | OT6 |
| mineral extraction | other | Mine, quarry etc. | OT7 |
| monument display | other | Use where the land on which the monument stands is dedicated to the monument itself: this may include Guardianship sites displayed, also sites which exclude any other land classification e.g. cross, commemorative monument. | OT8 |
| orchard | other | In use for fruit growing or former orchard retaining trees. | OT10 |
| thoroughfare | other | Path, road, track, bridge, lay-by etc. | OT11 |
| verge | other | Uncultivated land lying alongside a thoroughfare | OT12 |
| waste ground | other | [?] | OT13 |
| recreational usage | other | Golf course, playing field etc. | OT14 |
| wetlands | [?] | To include areas of wet valley bogs, sphagnum bogs, fens (N.B. in large areas of wetland such as the fens or Somerset Levels most land should be classified under its current use e.g. cultivated land, woodland etc rather than as wetlands). | WT1 |
| deciduous native woodland | woodland | Defined as species present after the last glaciation, e.g. oak, ash, elm, beech, birch, alder, hazel, hornbeam etc. | WL1 |
| deciduous introduced woodland | woodland | Defined as species introduced after the last glaciation e.g. sycamore, sweet chestnut etc. | WL2 |
| mixed woodland | woodland | In which coniferous and deciduous are present in roughly equal proportions. | WL3 |
| coniferous plantation | woodland | In which a range of conifers may be planted, e.g. spruce, larch, pine etc. | WL4 |
| undetermined woodland | woodland | [?] | WL5 |
| parkland | woodland | In which the density of the trees is significantly less marked than in woodland; if parkland is currently cultivated then classify land accordingly. | WL6 |
| scrub | woodland | The term includes invasive woodland characterised by the presence of birch, willow, alder, ash, sycamore, conifers as low trees with shrubs. | WL7 |
| coastland | [?] | Land uses associated with coastal environments. Use specific term where known. | [?] |
| woodland | [?] | Woodland land use. Use specific term where known. | [?] |
| cultivated | [?] | Cultivated land. Use specific term where known. | [?] |
| open fresh water | [?] | For inland bodies of water. Use specific term where known. | [?] |
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