Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland’s Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century” (Monograph 23 of The Society for Medieval Archaeology) has been published.

An essay of the use of 3D laser scanning technology to record, analyse and replicate Pictish sculpture written by Alistair Carty, our technical director, is included alongside experts such as Martin Carver and Sally Foster.

From Maney Publishing:
“One hundred years on from J Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson’s 1903 landmark publication, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, twenty six essays explore the current state of knowledge of early medieval sculpture in Scotland. They demonstrate the unique value of this material in contributing to our understanding of the society and people that created it between 1000 to 1500 years ago. Today’s approaches and techniques offer new insights, as well as great hope, for what might be learnt from future study of ‘familiar’ and new material alike.”