by Richard | Apr 25, 2020 | April
Hi all. Thought some of you may be interested in our latest article that has come out in Australian Archaeology: ‘Landscapes of production and punishment: LiDAR and the process of feature identification and analysis at a Tasmanian convict station’. It...
by Richard | Apr 8, 2020 | April
The processing of the photogrammetry has allowed me to visualise some of the early results of the excavation. After 12 days of cleaning back the remnant topsoil, the site was looking particularly lovely, with a few interesting features popping through. As expected,...
by Richard | Mar 31, 2020 | March
Being a bunch of joiners, we’ve decided to do like the rest of the world and cease our business until the nasty virus goes away. Unlike many, we are in the lucky position of just being able to put things on hiatus until we come back. This is a critical part of...
by Richard | Mar 30, 2020 | March
As Attenborough famously said: “Life finds a way”. Or, somebody else said it and I am misremembering. Anyway, who cares! I don’t. Anyway. Horus, meet Boris. Aren’t they beautiful?! Captured by crew member Jess in the act of discourse on the...
by Richard | Mar 29, 2020 | March
Apparently, if you wish hard enough, your dirt cleaning woes will be sorted by the manifestation of this apparition: After a particularly windy eve, we arrived on site to find this Daemon wandering about. Though we were frightened and a little confused by his...
by Richard | Mar 23, 2020 | March
Your favourite team of dedicated archaeologists are still plugging away at Port Arthur. As proof of that, here is a photo from this afternoon: Seven of us are working away on the excavation, like a bunch of individually-identifiable, colourfully-hatted dwarfs. In this...