ACCORD with the Colintraive and Glendaruel Development Trust (CGDT) Archaeology and History Group
ACCORD project, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5284/1042736. How to cite using this DOI
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Primary contact
Dr
Stuart
Jeffrey
Research Fellow
Glasgow School of Art
Digital Design Studio
The Hub
Pacific Quay
Glasgow
G51 1EA
Scotland
Tel: +44 (0) 141 566 1465
Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 2151
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1042736
- How to cite using this DOI
Overview
The ACCORD team worked with the CGDT (Colintraive and Glendaruel Development Trust) Archaeology and History Group on the 6th April and 21st – 22nd June 2014. Together we recorded and modelled three monuments located in the Kilmoden Parish, west coast of Scotland: the Lephinkill Chambered Cairn; a cup and ring marked stone; and a WWI Memorial dedicated to two men who fell at Gallipoli and their relatives. We used a range of technologies including photogrammetry, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and laser scanning. The cairn and cup and ring marked stone are located in a community owned woodland, Stronafian Forest (which covers 600 ha), which the CGDT purchased as a social enterprise project in February 2013.
The CGDT Archaeology and History Group is a recently formed sub-committee of The Colintraive and Glendaruel Development Trust (CGDT) (http://cgdt.org/about/). The CGDT is governed by a Board of Directors elected by the community. It currently has c.40 official members; membership is open to all those who are permanently resident in Colintraive and Glendaruel and on the electoral roll. The Trust is established as a Company Limited by Guarantee (SC350010) and is registered as a Charity (SC040002). The CGDT Archaeology and History sub-group is made up of 12 members, founded following an Archaeology Scotland Adopt-a-Monument workshop held on the 23rd and 24th of November 2013.
List of Participants in the ACCORD project:
- Eamon Connon (CGDT woodland officer)
- Mark Chambers (CGDT woodland officer)
- Susan Gaffney (CGDT History group)
- Andrew White (CGDT History group)
- Gordon Hamilton (CGDT History group)
- Todd Ferguson (CGDT History group)
- Susan Hamilton (CGDT History group)
- Rosalyn McKenna (CGDT History group)
- Catherine Grant (CGDT History group)
- Anne Lamb (CGDT History group)
- Danuta Steedman (CGDT History group)
- Stuart Jeffrey (Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art)
- Mhairi Maxwell (Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art)
- Siân Jones (University of Manchester)
- Cara Jones (Archaeology Scotland)
- Kate Phillips (formerly Archaeology Scotland)
Description of Data-Capture Process:
For photogrammetry, in both cases, data collection consisted of digital images captured with an AF-S Nikkor 18-55 mm F3.5-5.6G on a Nikon D5300 DSLR camera. Before any images were taken, the camera and lens settings were set to automatic, with no flash and images captured at jpg fine quality. A total of 132 digital images were captured in order to create a photogrammetric model of the World War 1 memorial dedicated to two men who fell at Gallipoli. For the photogrammetric model of the cup and ring marked stone a total of 57 images were taken.
For reflectance transformation imaging, in both cases, data collection consisted of digital images captured with an 18-55mm Nikkor lens on a Nikon D5300 DSLR camera. Before any images were taken, the camera and lens settings were fixed so that each image was taken with the same focus (with no flash and images captured at jpg fine quality). We used the RTI builder software available from Cultural Heritage Imaging, which uses a polynomial texture mapping plugin. We used hand-held light sources for highlight based data capture, one torch was an LED and the other a halogen, and a shiny black sphere mounted on tripod next to the object surface. To minimise light pollution data capture took place under a tarp. In total we took 75 images using a halogen light source and 54 using a LED light source.
Data available on the ADS from this project:
- Photographs of co-production in action.
- A summary statement of pre-existing and generated social value and significance related to the monuments recorded. This was co-written with the CGDT History group.
- Two photogrammetric 3D models produced by the CGDT History group with ACCORD of the Lephinkill cup and ring marked stone and a war memorial dedicated to the battle of Gallipoli. These are both made available as interactive 3D PDFs and also as OBJ and X3G files from which you can 3D print.
- Two Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files produced by the CGDT group with ACCORD of the Lephinkill cup and ring marked stone.
- One LIDAR model of the Lephinkill chambered cairn created by Alastair Rawlinson Head of Data Acquisition at the Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art, with help from the CGDT Archaeology and History group.
- Archival copies of the original digital photographs used to create the photogrammetric models and the RTI images.
- Metadata for the above.
All ACCORD datasets provided via the ADS are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license
