Monitoring Cumbrian Heritage Sites at Castlerigg Stone Circle and Long Meg Plus Her Daughters Stone Circle

Evans, Ellie (2024) Monitoring Cumbrian Heritage Sites at Castlerigg Stone Circle and Long Meg Plus Her Daughters Stone Circle. In: Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA) AGM & Autumn Conference, 26 October 2024, Lyttelton Lecture Theatre & Midland Institute, Birmingham, UK. (Unpublished)

[thumbnail of conference report]
Preview
PDF (conference report) - Presentation
Available under License CC BY-NC

Download (557kB) | Preview
Official URL: https://societyforthehistoryofastronomy.com/meetin...

Abstract

The third conference speaker was Miss Ellie Evans also a Ph. D student at the University of Cumbria and is a digital Platform Assistant at the Ruskin, at Lancaster University. She has also worked at the Hawkshead Grammar School Museum with responsibility in maintaining its large astronomy collection of books and instrumentation. Using a wide range of modern techniques Ellie shared with the delegates her Ph. D research into the monitoring of the Cumbrian outdoor heritage sites mentioned within the talk title. This monitoring users drone photography, photogrammetry, and visitor route surveys. These sites all have astronomical and historical significance within Cumbria well known for its rich archaeoastronomy points of interest.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Departments: Institute of Science and Environment > Forestry and Conservation
Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
Depositing User: Anna Lupton
Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2025 09:12
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2025 08:45
URI: https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8834

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year



Downloads each year

Edit Item