Service: 3D & Surface Enhancement
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Porths and Gigs of the Isles of Scilly
Pilot gigs are one of the Isles of Scilly’s best-known traditions, but behind the modern sport lies a much older maritime landscape. Around the islands, gig sheds, slipways, drangs and lookout points still survive as evidence of a working world shaped by pilotage, island communications, wreck response and coastal labour. In 2024 I joined a…
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Hendraburnick ‘Quoit’: Revealing the Most Decorated Stone in Southern Britain
A 16-tonne greenstone slab in a Cornish pasture field turned out to conceal one of the most complex rock art programmes in southern Britain — but only a systematic programme of 3D recording and surface analysis could make that case rigorously enough to stand up to scrutiny.
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Dunchraigaig Cairn, Scotland
Using remote 3D surface enhancement to help reveal the Dunchraigaig deer, a hidden group of prehistoric animal carvings inside a burial cairn in Kilmartin Glen.
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Investigating and Recording the Chi-Rho in Cornwall
Six early Christian inscribed stones. All previously recorded using a single term — chi-rho — that, it turned out, did not apply equally to all of them. Close digital recording made it possible to examine each stone with a rigour that oblique lighting and the naked eye simply cannot achieve.
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Imaging the Tintagel early medieval inscribed slate
RTI imaging of the Tintagel inscribed slate helped clarify faint letterforms and supported the interpretation of a rare piece of early medieval writing practice.
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The Gulval Evangelists
A worn granite cross-base at Gulval Church had long resisted clear interpretation. High-resolution 3D capture and surface analysis made its carvings legible enough to identify the Four Evangelists, opening up a wider research story about early medieval Cornwall, Breton Gospel imagery and the interpretative value of digital recording.