Today sees the launch of the new DigVentures project, Saints & Secrets: the Lost History of Leiston Abbey. The now-ruined 14th century Leiston Abbey has never been fully excavated, and represents an extremely rare opportunity to join in with an evaluation to investigate and record a medieval monastery. You can read all about the planned programme [...]
About Tom Goskar
I am a digital heritage specialist, working with web technologies, social media, photography, 3D visualisation and capture techniques. Please visit my website to find out how I can help you.Author Archive | Tom Goskar
On Commercial Archaeology and Public Benefit
Before turning freelance, I spent a decade working in the commercial archaeology sector, and have seen a fair number of archaeological projects over the years. Some great archaeology done by fantastic archaeologists, and post-excavation analysis done to the highest standards. But, what is the point of it, if all that work brings very little benefit [...]
Day of Archaeology 2012
This year I once again helped to organise the Day of Archaeology, an online event that features blog posts from archaeologists around the world to highlight our work in our own words. One of the aims of the Day of Archaeology is to show how exciting and relevant archaeology is to us all, by showing [...]
All Change
I have been rather quiet on the blogging front lately. Largely this has been driven by a series of moves, physically, and career-wise. Firstly, after many years of planning, I have now moved to west Cornwall,which is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful parts of the UK, as well as one of the [...]
British Archaeology magazine available digitally
The Council for British Archaeology have recently announced that British Archaeology magazine is now available as a digital edition. It will be available through a web browser, as well as via apps on iOS and Android devices. If you haven’t come across British Archaeology, then I urge you to have a look at the free [...]
Day of Archaeology 2011
Friday 29th July 2011 was the Day of Archaeology, an international online event organised by a group of like-minded archaeologists, as part of the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of British Archaeology. The idea behind the event was to showcase the sheer variety of work that archaeologists do in their jobs, to help highlight how [...]
New article – Interactive Landscape Relighting
I have just published a short article, co-written with Paul Cripps, entitled Interactive Landscape Relighting in the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society’s Archaeology Special Interest Group Spring 2011 Newsletter. It is a summary of the work I have been doing on scaling virtual Polynomial Texture Mapping techniques up to allow us to examine whole landscapes [...]
Archaeology Blogs
I have just published a list of archaeology blogs that I subscribe to via RSS. I have also created a bundle in Google Reader for those, like me, can’t live without an RSS reader. It seems that blogging has been quietly gathering momentum in archaeology since I first started noticing blogs in 2004, and blogging [...]
New, complete 3D laser scan of Stonehenge commissioned
English Heritage have recently commissioned a new, complete 3D laser scan of Stonehenge. This will involve scanning the land in the ‘Stonehenge triangle’, the ground immediately surrounding the stones at a higher resolution, and of course the stones themselves, at a resolution of 0.5mm. You can find out more about the equipment and aims at [...]
British Academy cut grant funding to the Council for British Archaeology
On Wednesday 2nd April 2011, the Council for British Archaeology announced that the British Academy will be phasing out their grant funding to the CBA over the next five years. This will amount to a cut of £306,000, a 25% reduction in the CBA’s entire income. In a statement, CBA President Dr Kate Pretty CBE [...]