Past Thinking » Stonehenge http://www.pastthinking.com/blog Archaeology, museums, and heritage: news, opinions and digital developments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:57:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2006-2007 tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) tom@goskar.com (Past Thinking) posts Where Past Meets Future Past Thinking Past Thinking tom@goskar.com No no http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Past Thinking http://www.pastthinking.com/blog 144 144 Lasers and Light http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2008/10/10/lasers-and-light/ http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2008/10/10/lasers-and-light/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:34:51 +0000 Tom Goskar http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/?p=247
Lasers and Light from Wessex Archaeology on Vimeo.

This is an animation that I put together at Wessex Archaeology for the Society of Antiquaries‘ Making History exhibition at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.

I posted some more information about the animation over at the Wessex Archaeology Computing Blog, so I won’t repeat myself here!

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Summer Solstice sunrise at the potential site for The Circle in the West.

We didn’t go to the summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge this year. Instead, at 4am, we were standing at the potential site for The Circle in the West, a new monument planned to be a full size homage to Stonehenge, built from stone.

At about 4.20am, Colin Shearing located the centre of the circle, and we used RTK GPS (a very accurate satellite positioning system) to locate some of the basic features that are present at Stonehenge, laying out some of the key alignments and the position of the heelstone.

If this project comes to fruition, then it will be an impressive place indeed.

Happy Solstice!

Update: Tehm has written a very eloquent description of the morning – far better than I could have done!

Update 2: Pete Glastonbury has written a great piece about the project, complete with a panorama of the proposed site.

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