Louise Barker & David Thomas, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

1. TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING
Vivian Slate Quarry, Llanberis

2. Ystrad Einion Metal Mine, Ceredigion. Underground water wheel.

5. NMRW Maritime Record: 5 Year Programme
Key Themes/Site Types:
• Submerged Palaeolandscapes (30)
• Shipwrecks (5317)
• Downed Aircraft (803)
• Humanly-defined seascapes (87)
(e.g. traditional fishing grounds)
• Intertidal Archaeology (154)
8% of total records within the NMRW

6. The wreck is reported to have been identified in 2004.
The full character and extent of archaeological remains
is presently unknown.
Event and Historical Information:
The SAINT JACQUES was a steel-hulled steamship
built by Atel. & Ch. De France, Dunkirk, in 1909. It was
carrying a cargo of coal from Barry to Bizerte under the
command of master H Hauville, when it was torpedoed
by the German submarine UC51 on 15 September
1917. The ship sank some 5 miles off St Ann's Head.
Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, April 2008.
Side Scan Sonar Imagery from the
Cadw Coal and Slate Wrecks Project
Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this
vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but
may be in the vicinity.
Event and Historical Information:
The PETER VARKEVISSER was a 69nt wooden sloop
built in 1875. At time of loss on 13 January 1896, the
vessel was carrying roofing slates from Porthmadoc to
Cardiff, It was caught by a east-southeasterly force 10
gale and foundered in St Tudwal’s Roads.
Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, April 2010.

7. Imaging the Seabed....
Side scan sonar images of wreck sites captured during Cadw-funded marine geophysical survey
Data archived with National Monuments Record of Wales by Wessex Archaeology

8. Aspirations for the Future....
Multi-beam Sonar
Side Scan Sonar
LIDAR in close inshore areas

9. Gorffennol Digidol
Digital Past 2012
Sharing Our Digital Past: Digital
innovation at the Royal Commission
The Challenges

10. • Digital Photography
• Laser Scanning
• Total Station
• Point Cloud
• GPS
• LiDAR
• Sonar
•Book Publication
•Website
•Storage
•On-line Database
•Support
•Blog
•Digital Preservation
•Social Media
•Copyright
•Public Engagement
•Standards
•Enquiries
•Sustainability and re-use

11. Gorffennol Digidol
Digital Past 2012
Storage and Support
Background Challenges Solutions Benefits
Ever expanding Keeping pace Creative options IT not a
need for storage with change for storage bottleneck for
innovation
Increased Real cost of Be selective
reliance on storage Whole
complex IT Careful IT organisation
Unequal use of Management benefits and
technology takes part
across the Training and
organisation spread of skills

12. Gorffennol Digidol
Digital Past 2012
Digital Preservation and Copyright
Background Challenges Solutions Benefits
Almost all output Perceptions Trusted Digital Preservation of
of the Royal about Repository record for
Commission is preservation of perpetuity
now digital digital material UK wide solution
Re-use of
Need to secure Heavy staff input Proper licensing records in many
long term future to complex and accession ways
of digital products process documentation
Legal framework

13. Gorffennol Digidol
Digital Past 2012
Information Standards and
Sustainability
Background Challenges Solutions Benefits
Very diverse Many different Establish or Interoperability
sector with lots of and developing share standards within and
opportunities for standards outside the
new approaches Agreement on sector
and techniques How to share the standards at start
information of work Sustainability
Need a
consistent Technology for Priority on Building systems
approach technology’s sake interpretation and and techniques
dissemination for the future

14. Gorffennol Digidol
Digital Past 2012
storage costs back-up costs
environment provision network Load
keep pace with innovation
creativity not stifled solutions rolled out across
can’t keep pace with change IT support un-equal
whole organisation innovation part of the
use of technology across the organisation different
whole organisation record preserved for
perceptions complex preservation
process heavy staff input data migration perpetuity records re-used legally
clear information re-used in many ways
burden proprietorial products interoperable information sustainable
complexity of the copyright law need to comply
development proper use of resources
creative commons orphaned works building systems and
complex standards not
easy to understand slow
down progress use of technology for techniques for the future
technology’s sake change for
change’s sake

17. PRESENTING OUR PAST
Ladelling molten copper in the smelting sheds at Hafod Copperworks, Swansea. Still from an animation

19. 3D wireframe of Denbigh Shire-hall in AutoCAD

21. Available for download from our website & through Coflein.

22. READING THE FUTURE
Digitisation of our entire back catalogue. Available soon for download

23. INTERPRETATION & PRESENTATION
Tyddyn Llwydion, Llanrhaeadr-ym-mochnant, Powys
3D Studio Max cutaway model showing the construction of the Leighton Farm piggery.

24. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Understanding the construction

25. The Final Product – Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Animation

26. ANIMATION
Nannerth-ganol Bardsey Island
Beupre ‘The Bridge’ by Jonah Jones

27. Hafod Copperworks, Swansea

29. Ystrad Einion Metal Mine, Ceredigion