Photogrammetric Survey

Date 4 October 2014 - 5 October 2014

Event ID 1026709

Category Recording

Type Photogrammetric Survey

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1026709

NX 69073 51128 The ACCORD (Archaeology Community Co-production Of Research Data) Project was an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project led by the Digital Design Studio (Glasgow School of Art), with the University of Manchester, RCAHMS and Archaeology Scotland, which worked with 10 community groups across Scotland from October 2013 to March 2015. The project aimed to co-design and co-produce 3D digital data of heritage sites that are of significance to the community groups and which they wished to record.

The ACCORD team worked with the Kirkcudbright History Society, from the 4–5 October 2014. Together, working in the Kirkcudbright Kirkyard, we modelled three grave monuments using photogrammetry (two are archived with the ADS) and recorded the inscriptions on two of these using the technique of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). The three grave monuments included one dedicated to the traveller Billy Marshall who died in 1792, an 18th-century gravestone with one face completely occupied by raised lettering, and an ornate tablestone grave dedicated to Samuel Herries who died in 1793.

Archive: ADS and National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE)

Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council

Stuart Jeffrey and Mhairi Maxwell – Glasgow School of Art

(Source: DES, Volume 16)