Swanlander
Sep 15, 2008, 08:09 AM
This was one of the first assignments I undertook with the old Fuji E206, back in 2004.
Due to major roadworks in the area, a large expanse of topsoil had been removed from the field next to the main road, thus exposing evidence of Roman and earlier Bronze age settlements. Because the road works would be churning the whole area up and laying ashphalt over the evidence within a couple of weeks, the local archeological group had very limited time to survey the site and save what relics they could.
My contribution was to fly as high as I could to capture an overview of the site, which would fill in the detail between the ground survey points.
You can see evidence of irrigation ditches (3 parallel dark lines running NNE/SSW) and several building outlines nearby (some indistinct rectangular shapes can be seen)
The latest Google map shows the new road layout, but the accompanying aerial view overlay at the time of writing is still showing the pre-works field boundaries.
Andrew
Due to major roadworks in the area, a large expanse of topsoil had been removed from the field next to the main road, thus exposing evidence of Roman and earlier Bronze age settlements. Because the road works would be churning the whole area up and laying ashphalt over the evidence within a couple of weeks, the local archeological group had very limited time to survey the site and save what relics they could.
My contribution was to fly as high as I could to capture an overview of the site, which would fill in the detail between the ground survey points.
You can see evidence of irrigation ditches (3 parallel dark lines running NNE/SSW) and several building outlines nearby (some indistinct rectangular shapes can be seen)
The latest Google map shows the new road layout, but the accompanying aerial view overlay at the time of writing is still showing the pre-works field boundaries.
Andrew