(This blog post covers work largely undertaken by Nigel Rothwell, one of our volunteers, and which was published in the Roman Roads Research Association Newsletter (behind a paywall I’m afraid) at the start of the year. We also gave a talk on the 23rd Feb on the subject, which might be repeated at some point […]
BotP on the small screen – Countryfile, 24th January
(An account from the Project Manager, Dr Wendy Morrison, giving a “behind the scenes” account of last Sunday’s Countryfile segment on the project. If you live in the UK and have a TV licence you can watch the piece via BBC iPlayer here. Also don’t miss Matt’s conversation with Stuart King, discussing the lives of […]
2020 in Review
2020 has obviously been a difficult year for many. For the project, whilst some plans have had to be put on hold due to Covid restrictions, we have been fortunate that our LiDAR Portal was pretty much ready-made for just such a situation, and so work has been able to carry on. As I discussed […]
Venturing beyond the Chilterns
How is it July already? No matter: we’re still having great fun exploring all the archaeology that can be found in the Chilterns LiDAR survey. 626 new Citizen Records were created in June alone, along with 481 new Monument Records from our Reviewers… of course what this means (besides lots of fantastic work continuing – […]
Where to look?
A frequent question I receive: “can we see what other people have recorded, so I know where to look?” A bit of discussion here on that question, and a map to show you where people have found things, and where people might not yet have looked very much… We took a decision early on in […]
Chilforts in conference, Twitter style
Some of you may have seen that on Friday last week Wendy (Wendy Morrison, Beacons of the Past Project Manager) and I (Ed Peveler, Lanscape Heritage Officer) took part in a conference talking about the project. However, it wasn’t your usual common-or-garden style academic conference… the conference was the “Public Archaeology Twitter Conference,” as the […]
Citizen Science and LiDAR (Part 2): a global affair!
In last week’s post I set out the premise behind our choice to use Citizen Science for exploring our LiDAR survey, and started to look at some of the statistics we have generated from the portal with regard to patterns of use. We’ve had quite an exciting week here at Hillfort Towers, with a nice […]
Citizen Science and LiDAR: apparently mostly on Wednesdays….
In this post I want to take a bit of a look at the way we have gone about making our Chilterns AONB LiDAR survey available for everyone to look at, and the project open for everyone to participate. I’ll talk about how we went about designing and building the portal for making our data […]
An update, at last
Well, it’s been a bit of a break in blogs, hasn’t it? It’s taken a pandemic to force me back to writing on here… We do hope everyone is staying well and safe at home – worth reiterating, please do follow all government advice to ensure we protect as many people as possible. However, I […]
Archaeology within Memory
Whilst most of Wendy’s and my time is spent considering prehistory, i.e. archaeology from before the Roman invasion, the LiDAR data is showing us monuments and sites from far more recent periods, and even earthworks created within living memory. I think it’s a really interesting question as to when “archaeology” stops and when the “modern” […]