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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

551 177

Description RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Date 1975 to 2006

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number 551 177

Category All Other

Scope and Content This collection contains photographic and manuscript materials from the pre-digital age including: negatives from aerial photography sorties (black and white and colour); prints from aerial photography sorties (black and white and colour); colour 35mm slides from aerial photography sorties; flight logs.

Archive History This material has always remained in the custody of HES and its predecessor organisations; it has been appraised in line with the HES Appraisal Policy. Until the 1980s RCAHMS photography was ordered according to the county system. This was superceded by a system of numbers with a letter prefix during the 1980s. During a mass digitisation project 2017-18 the photographic prints were digitised and the collection put into its current arrangement.

System of Arrangement This material is arranged by year and sorties.

Related Material RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital GB 551 178; Historic Environment Scotland records: GB 551/500/1/1

Access Conditions None

Administrative History RCAHMS established its aerial survey function in 1976, having conducted some trial flights in the previous year. The initial focus was on discovering and recording sites at threat from cultivation, especially cropmarks in lowland areas. The scope soon expanded to include recording of earthworks in upland areas and architectural sites. In a staged process between 2003 and 2005 aerial photography switched to digital which is held in the HES Digital Archive as a separate collection. The aerial survey function was retained in the creation of Historic Environment Scotland though by this time only used digital photography.

Accruals No further analogue materials will be created.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1176476

Collection Hierarchy - Collection Level

Collection Level (551 177) RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55866 Colquhalzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on cropmarks including those of pits and possible ring-ditches. 16/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55867 Colquhalzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW, centred on cropmarks including those of pits and possible ring-ditches. 16/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55868 Colquhalzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on cropmarks including those of pits and possible ring-ditches. 16/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55017 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, centred on the cropmarks of a barrow, and a linear cropmark. The cropmarks of a moated site are visible in the centre right of the photograph. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55018 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNE, centred on the cropmarks of a barrow, and a linear cropmark. The cropmarks of a moated site are visible in the bottom centre of the photograph. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98498 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98499 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98500 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98501 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98502 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view, taken from the S. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98503 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98495 CS Clatchard Craig Quarry, oblique aerial view. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55217 Park Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNE, showing a hill figure in the centre right of the photograph. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55218 Park Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, showing a hill figure in the bottom half of the photograph. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55187 Bankhead, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the cropmarks of a possible rectilinear enclosure, and on Roman quarry-pits. 21/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98524 CS Cargill Roman Fort, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98525 CS Cargill Roman Fort, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98526 CS Cargill Roman Fort, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55186 Bankhead, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on the cropmarks of a possible rectilinear enclosure, and on Roman quarry-pits. 21/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55188 Bankhead, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a possible rectilinear enclosure. 21/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55258 Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55259 Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55260 Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55261 Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level

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