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Laser Scanning
Date 7 March 2011 - 29 April 2011
Event ID 959599
Category Recording
Type Laser Scanning
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/959599
Designed by Jimmy Boyle in 1976 and completed in 1977, the Gulliver Statue was constructed by local unemployed adults and youths under a festival society job creation scheme and at 100 feet long was the largest concrete sculpture in Europe. It had recently fallen into a state of disrepair and, unfortunately, due to its location within the Niddrie Burn restoration Project, this neglected icon of Niddrie had to be removed to make way for the restoration scheme. Prior to its removal it was fully recorded by laser digital scanning and photography (Plate 9). The fragile nature of the statue made moving its different elements outwith the development to a place of safety impossible. However the left foot of the Gulliver which was already outwith the development area this survives in situ as a reminder of the former statue.
Erlend Hindmarch, AOC Archaeology Group, July 2011. OASIS-id: aocarcha-1-103172.
