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” […]
The Grand Plan
Hi all, sorry for the slight radio silence! I’ve just been off for a couple of weeks of leave. Predictably, there’s always archaeology involved… firstly I went trotting around the Trotternish Ridge in Skye… … before sneaking off to roam around Rome. Back home again now, enjoying some beautiful sunny days here in Chinnor, the […]
The problem with hillforts… Part 1
As you are hopefully aware, the real focus of the Beacons of the Past project is the Iron Age archaeology of the Chilterns. Whilst the LiDAR is revealing archaeology from all periods, from the Neolithic to the 20th Century, the Iron Age hillforts and their landscapes are our main concern when it comes to the […]
A temporary bench mark
A bit of fun for this post… as you may have heard, the project has had a small excavation going on, out at Burnham Beeches, in South Bucks. We have been investigating a large, long, linear earthwork, which intersects with the hillfort, to see if we can work out what it was constructed for, and […]