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moss Feb 11, 2013 14:15:38
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
moss wrote:
Fascinating discussion between the 'new boy on the block' and the historian. Can this be a new relationship between art and prehistory?


"Andrew Graham-Dixon visits the ancient site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, on Winter Solstice.

There are more than one hundred Early Bronze Age carvings on the great stones at Stonehenge, most of which have been newly discovered by laser survey. Andrew discovers more about the significance of this carved art and what it tells us about the function of the site."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/21385687

Is this stone laser surveying going on elsewhere with equally good results do you know Moss?
I would think so but all this laser work, especially in landscape is very new, but will have a look for you (sometime) ;). My initial response was ...is this art? it looks more like 'tally' marks, a rejoicing several hundred years later at the technology of bronze or maybe visiting chieftains making their mark as they traded axes....

M moss
moss Feb 11, 2013 14:20:39
Replying to moss

more information from Maeve Kennedy in the Guardian...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/oct/09/stonehenge-digital-laser-3d-survey

and some info to the previously asked question Roy...

"Writing about the project in the new issue of British Archaeology, Marcus Abbott, head of geomatics and visualisation for ArcHeritage, and Hugo Anderson-Whymark, an Oxford based expert on ancient worked stone, note that the 850 gigabytes of data covering hundreds of faces of the stones were equivalent to 750m pages of printed text or 200,000 music files.

"Over the months we have recorded and scrutinised every square centimetre of Stonehenge in unparalleled detail, revealing over 700 areas of stoneworking, rock art, graffiti, damage and restoration."