Canmore is an
online database
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or index to information on over 320,000 archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings in
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
. It was launched by the
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in 1997 as the Computer Application for National MOnuments Record Enquiries.
Canmore provided access to the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS), which was founded in 1966 as an amalgam of the important archive of plans and photographs held by the RCAHMS and the
Ministry of Public Building and Works. The NMRS was further developed with material from the Scottish National Buildings Record, the National Art Survey, the Ordnance Survey and the Scottish Office Air Photographs Unit.
Historic Environment Scotland has maintained Canmore since 2015. The Canmore website now provides access to the National Record of the Historic Environment, formerly the
National Monuments Record of Scotland, and contains around 1.3 million catalogue entries. It includes marine monuments and designated official wreck sites (those that fall under the
Protection of Wrecks Act), such as the wreck of .
In May 2025,
Historic Environment Scotland announced that Canmore would be switched off on 24 June, along with
Scran and ScotlandsPlaces.
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Archaeology of Scotland
Architecture in Scotland
Canmore
Archives in Scotland
Databases in Scotland
Architecture databases
Archaeological databases
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