ACCORD with the Bressay History Group
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Primary contact
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Stuart
Jeffrey
Research Fellow
Glasgow School of Art
Digital Design Studio
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Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 2149
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1042727
- How to cite using this DOI
Overview
The ACCORD team worked with the Bressay History Group on the 8th to the 9th of October 2014. Together, at the abandoned settlement of Cullingsburgh (NGR HU 5209 4221) on the island of Bressay (Shetland Islands) we recorded a gravestone in the burial ground using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and modelled a ruined manse using photogrammetry.
The Bressay History Group is registered as a Scottish Charity (SC020818). The constituted aim of the group is "to preserve, exhibit and publish for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the public, items of Bressay folklore, tradition, place names, dialect, manuscripts, publications, pictorial and photographic records." The group founded the Bressay Heritage Centre, which has been open since 1996, enabled by grants from the European Regional Development, Shetland Islands Council Leisure and Recreation Department, Shetland Amenity Trust, Bressay Community Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and Bressay History Group funds. This ACCORD co-production project emerged out of a previous Adopt a Monument project with Archaeology Scotland in 2008, where the group reconstructed a Bronze Age burnt mound next to the heritage centre. However, for the ACCORD project, the group had expressed an interest in the 19th Century abandoned township of Cullingsburgh, where there is also the remains of an Iron Age broch and a church with medieval foundations here (more information in the Summary Statement).
List of Participants in the ACCORD project:
- Chris Dyer (Bressay History Group)
- Beatrice Low (Bressay History Group)
- Jane Manson (Bressay History Group)
- Bernard Redman (Bressay History Group)
- John Scott (Bressay History Group)
- Cara Jones (Archaeology Scotland)
- Mhairi Maxwell (Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art)
Description of Data-Capture Process:
For photogrammetry, 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 set to automatic, with no flash and images captured at JPG fine quality (metadata for each image is provided in the accompanying excel spreadsheet). A total of 749 digital images were captured in order to create a photogrammetric model of the manse at Cullingsburgh.
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 within controlled parameters, 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 an LED hand-held light source for highlight based data capture, and a shiny black sphere mounted on a tripod next to the object surface. To minimise light pollution data capture took place under a tarp. In total we took 101 images focusing on the carved crest on the gravestone, and then another 39 images focusing on the text incised on the gravestone.
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 Bressay History Group.
- A photogrammetric 3D model produced by the Bressay History Group with ACCORD of the abandoned manse at Cullingsburgh. This is made available as an interactive 3D PDF and also as an OBJ file.
- Two Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files produced by the Bressay History Group with ACCORD of a gravestone in the burial ground dedicated to a 17th Century shipwreck victim (Commander Claes Jansen Bruyn).
- Archival copies of the original digital photographs used to create the photogrammetric models and the RTI images.
- Additional archival material including a digital copy of a 19th Century photograph of the interior of the manse when occupied (COPYRIGHT), and digital images of newspaper clippings related to the story of Commander Claes Jansen Bruyn.
- Metadata for the above.
All ACCORD datasets provided via the ADS are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license
