Stonehenge

The BBC have just reported that in addition to the dramatic cuts to public services, the Con Dem coalition have cut the government funding for the Stonehenge Visitor Centre Project. I imagine the project will now be cancelled as it is unlikely that English Heritage, Wiltshire Council, the Highways Agency or indeed anyone else will be able to stump up the twenty odd million needed. » Continue reading “Stonehenge Visitor Centre RIP. Again.”

Stonehenge panorama

Following on from my last post, I’ve prepared a couple more panoramas from my Stonehenge photographs. Again, these were prepared using Microsoft ICE and then uploaded to Photosynth. » Continue reading “Stonehenge panoramas”

Woodhenge Panorama

First there was photography. Then came digital photography. Now, Microsoft have some neat tools for doing amazing things with digital photographs and I’ve combined my love of photography, geeky things and prehistoric archaeology using some of their gadgets. » Continue reading “Photographs and then some!”

A talk given earlier this year at Strode College based largely on a talk given earlier this year at the IfA conference. The main aim was to show the students some of the ways in which technology is used in contemporary archaeological practice to help disseminate findings, with numerous examples from all over the place; credits to all those people and organisations mentioned. Topics covered included data standards, GIS, ontologies and terminology through to innovative uses of the web and so-called web2.0 services such as blogs, twitter, flickr and the like. Videos from the day are over on Vimeo. » Continue reading “Public Access through technology; Using archaeological computing to interact with wider audiences in new and engaging ways”