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Re: Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
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Another Britarch email interestingly suggests that laser scans are not enough.

> I'm really puzzled by this incident.
>
> Was this stone properly examined and recorded??... as a sculptor I'd be
very
> interested in comparing the carvers tool marks with examples I've examined
> in Ireland.
>
> Clive
>

> Hi Clive
>
> From the press release, the stone was laser scanned - does this give high
> enough resolution for examination of tool marks on the scan, or do you
think
> that the original should be examined? I assume the latter as it is best,
> normally, to go to the primary source.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>


"Peter,

Whether the laser scan gives a high enough resolution really depends on what
was being examined.Much of what I've read about such carving seems to
primarily rely on an examination of what is stylistically visually apparent
and tends to neglect evidence intimately associated with the actual
craftsmanship employed.

I'd be very interested to see if there was any indication that the carving
was completed by an individual carver or by numerous and maybe successive
generations of carvers.Our appreciation of the design and its purpose is
surely fundamentally affected by such questions..E.g., Is this a Landscape
or perhaps a History??

To properly explore such question, I'd like to have the opportunity to
microscopically examine individual grains taken for various tooled areas on
the design.
Carving is like handwriting, an "impact" left by one craftsman will reflect
the skill of that individual and is an unique signature.

Careful physical examination of the tooled areas might also provide us with
traces of the actual carving tools or techniques employed.Not only
interesting in their own right, but such evidence might provide further
insight into the former question.

So Yes...physical examination is not only best... but absolutely vital if
such inquiry is to be conducted.

Regards
Clive


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22nd December 2004ce
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