The document discusses digital tools and techniques for archaeological data capture, analysis, and dissemination. It covers improving on-site data capture through remote sensing, terrestrial scanning, and hydrological mapping. It also discusses analyzing the data through GIS to study site phasing and stratigraphy, population estimates, and viewshed analysis. The goal is to better understand sacred landscapes and populated areas through digital reconstruction and sharing findings online.
36. GIS for a truncated landscape
• 1920’s toilet centre upper in
cemetery
• Large basement area on east
side of site,
• Drainage dividing ditch between
main body of cemetery and church
in period 17
• Civil war ditch leading up to
charnel house from south.
• Catastrophic burial from later
periods
39. Truncation and population extrapolation Quantifying visibility
60.0
56.8
54.0
50.0
45.5
40.0
30.0
26.7
20.0
10.0
0.0
14-1100-1200 15 1200-1250 16 1250-1400 17 1400-1538
%of cemetery truncated by area
Cemetery Truncated
Found Est total Period length Visible area
area area
Period 14 1100-1200 900 3000 100 4612 2621 1991
Period 15 1200-1250 2839 5600 50 4701 2538 2163
Period 16 1250-1400 5480 7900 150 5687 2587 3100
Period 17 1400-1538 1009 1350 138 2923 780 2143
40. Investigating a sacred landscape
Spatial targets, what was happening around these target?
• Charnel house appears in period 1320s
• The Pulpit cross – 1390s
• Relationships to the south-east end of church period X
• Cannon’s infirmary period X
• Cemetery changing boundary
46. Buffered subsets
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Pre-natal 7-11 1-5 years 6-11 12-17 18-25 26-35 36-45 46 or
months years years years years years more
Within 3m of monuments >3m From monuments
47. MOLA Products
• An articulated version of Rocque 1746 central London map
georeferenced to both OSGB36 and WGS84 CS
• A point dataset of each combination of Parish, Ward and street/place
identifiable on the map.
• A replicable methodology
Challenges
• Accuracy of the map
– Stability of Media used
– Survey technique used
• How to minimise the amount of new data entry
• QA of data sets
• How to exploit the first accurate mapping of the area
62. Identifying places on the map
Main thoroughfare ‐ outsized e.g. Holborn, Cheapside typically 20m width. This code is also to be used for
1
those roads that run around squares and similar entities.
2 Main thoroughfare ‐ standard width (c.15m)
3 Secondary thoroughfare ‐ standard width (c.10m)
4 Tertiary thoroughfare ‐ standard width (c.6m)
5 Alley way ‐ i.e. a narrow route running between two streets or street and place polygon (1‐2m)
Cul‐de‐sac plus area ‐ i.e. a dead end but one which opens out into a court. The wider area is captured as a
6
polygon and will be amalgamated with class 6 streets (typically c.2m but up to 10 for a Mews)
7 Cul‐de‐sac ‐ i.e. a simple dead‐end. (c.2m but up to 10 for a Mews)
99. Filename Contents Count Type
LL_PL Places 5887 Polygons
LL_PL_POINTS Places 5887 Points
LL_PA Parishes 191 Polygons
LL_PA_POINTS Parishes 191 Points
LL_WA Wards 99 Polygons
LL_WA_POINTS Wards 99 Points
LL_PL_PA 7,121 Polygons
LL_PL_PA_POINTS Places and Parishes 7,016 Points
LL_PL_WA Places and Wards 6,711 Polygons
LL_PL_WA_POINTS Places and Wards 6,711 Points
LL_PL_PA_WA Places and parishes and wards 7,847 Polygons
LL_PL_PA_WA_POINTS Places and parishes and wards 7,847 Points
LL_PA_WA Parishes and wards 555 Polygons
LL_PA_WA_POINTS Parishes and wards 555 Points
LL_STREET_NETWORK Street network Lines
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It plane lee marks four my revue
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• People are subjective observers
• Computers are subjective
‘observers’
• Identifying bias and
humanization
• To be useful they must be
understood
101. •Defensive ?
• On top of steep slopes
• Good views of surrounding land?
• Invisible interiors ?
Or
Constructing a sense of place?
Seeing and being seen?