We recently undertook high-resolution 3D laser scanning as part of the Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project run by Dr. Tertia Barnett of Northumberland County Council and funded by English Heritage. We scanned three panels in Northumberland: Ketley Crag, Chatton Park 1, Huntersheugh and two in County Durham: Howgill and Cotherstone.

Minolta VI-900 at Huntersheugh

3D Laser Scan of Ketley Crag

This round of scanning will act in conjunction with high-accuracy GPS data as a baseline for monitoring any degradation to the surfaces of these irreplaceable works of art.

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We’re pleased to announce that the fieldwork for our mammoth 3D scanning project at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, is finally complete. Over 3800 scans have been acquired at 1mm resolution with our Minolta VI900 scanner resulting in a raw dataset of over 1,100,000,000 measurements! This is approaching being one of the single largest datasets ever acquired for a single context either in the commercial or research world.

Our data processing engines are now ready to crunch this dataset into the final deliverables of huge detailed triangle meshes. Watch this space…

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We are delighted to announce that in February 2006 Archaeoptics will be travelling through Libya to scan the famous “Fighting Cats” rock art panel. This work is being undertaken for TARA (The Trust for African Rock Art) and in conjunction with Dr. Tertia Barnett of Northumberland County Council.

We have been fortunate in being able to scan some of the finest Rock Art panels in Britain including the Ballochmyle Walls, Fylingdales Moor, Chatton Park and Ketley Crag and it will be our privilege to undertake this work in Libya.

More information is available on the TARA website.

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