This page brings together my published work, exhibition projects, papers, lectures and other contributions across archaeology, digital heritage, surface analysis, interpretation and public engagement.

Taken together, these entries show the shape of my work over time. Some are formal publications. Others reflect collaborative research, technical contribution, enhanced imagery, exhibition interpretation or public speaking. That mix matters. I have never been interested in digital methods as an end in themselves. What matters is what becomes clearer, what can be understood more fully, and what a project is able to communicate once the evidence has been examined closely.

Selected publications and research contributions

These selected publications and research contributions reflect the main strands of my work over time: the development of digital recording methods, the interpretation of difficult surfaces, collaborative archaeological research, and public writing rooted in place.

• Goskar, T.A., Carty, A., Cripps, P., Brayne, C. and Vickers, D. (2003) ‘The Stonehenge Laser Show’, British Archaeology, 73, pp. 9-15.
• Goskar, T.A. and Earl, G.P. (2010) ‘Polynomial texture mapping for archaeologists’, British Archaeology, 111, pp. 28-31.
• Jones, A.M. and Goskar, T.A. (2017) ‘Hendraburnick “Quoit”: recording and dating rock art in the west of Britain’, Time and Mind, 10(3).
• Duffy, S.M., Kennedy, H., Goskar, T. and Backhouse, P. (2018) Multi-light Imaging Highlight-Reflectance Transformation Imaging (H-RTI) for Cultural Heritage. Archaeology Data Service.
• Goskar, T.A. (2022) ‘Guise Dancing: the Christmastime mumming tradition of West Cornwall’, Tradfolk.
• Goskar, T.A. (2026) ‘The rediscovery of the Penzance Borough Cross’, Cornwall Archaeology Society Newsletter, 170, pp. 9-11.

Publications

• Goskar, T.A., Carty, A., Cripps, P., Brayne, C. and Vickers, D. (2003) ‘The Stonehenge Laser Show’, British Archaeology, 73, pp. 9-15.
• Carty, A. and Goskar, T.A. (2005) Surveying Knowlton Church and Henge Using 3D Laser Scanning. Archaeoptics.
• Goskar, T.A. (2006) ‘Podcasting the past’, Podcast User Magazine, 11, pp. 26-28.
• Goskar, T.A. and McHarg, C. (2006) ‘Walk to work learning about old Dorset’, British Archaeology, 86.
• Goskar, T.A. (2006) ‘Wessex Archaeology and Flickr: how we use Web 2.0’, Culture24.
• Goskar, T.A. and Brayne, C. (2008) ‘A long history of arrivals and departures’, British Archaeology, 98.
• Isaksen, L., Goskar, T.A. and Cripps, P. (2008) ‘Making people believe’, British Archaeology, 100, pp. 20-27.
• Goskar, T.A. (2009) ‘Using the web to reach wider audiences’, Institute for Archaeologists Yearbook and Directory 2009, pp. 29-31.
• Goskar, T.A. and Earl, G.P. (2010) ‘Polynomial texture mapping for archaeologists’, British Archaeology, 111, pp. 28-31.
• Goskar, T.A. and Cripps, P. (2011) ‘Interactive landscape relighting’, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, Archaeology Special Interest Group Newsletter, Spring 2011, pp. 4-5.
• Goskar, T.A. (2012) ‘Amesbury Archer to Archaeocast: Wessex Archaeology and the web’, in Bonacchi, C. (ed.) Archaeology and Digital Communication: Towards Strategies of Public Engagement. London: Archetype.
• Goskar, T.A. (2014) ‘Rock art at Carwynnen Quoit’, in Richards, P. and Nowakowski, J. (eds.) A Monument Like No Other: The Restoration of Carwynnen Quoit. St Austell: The Sustainable Trust, p. 21.
• Goskar, T.A. and Brown, M.P. (2016) ‘The Gulval Evangelists’, British Archaeology, 146.
• Jones, A.M. and Goskar, T.A. (2017) ‘Hendraburnick “Quoit”: recording and dating rock art in the west of Britain’, Time and Mind, 10(3).
• Jones, A.M. and Goskar, T.A. (2017) ‘Carvings and bright lights at Hendraburnick Quoit’, British Archaeology, 158, pp. 38-43.
• Goskar, T.A. (2018) ‘A little less mute: 3D laser scanning prehistoric rock art and early medieval inscribed stones in Cornwall’, in Jones, A.M. and Quinnell, H. (eds.) An Intellectual Adventurer in Archaeology: Reflections on the Work of Charles Thomas. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 175-182.
• Duffy, S.M., Kennedy, H., Goskar, T. and Backhouse, P. (2018) Multi-light Imaging Highlight-Reflectance Transformation Imaging (H-RTI) for Cultural Heritage. Archaeology Data Service.
• Goskar, T.A. (2022) ‘Guise Dancing: the Christmastime mumming tradition of West Cornwall’, Tradfolk.
• Goskar, T.A. (2023) ‘Golowan: Penzance’s midsummer celebration’, Tradfolk.
• Goskar, T.A. (2026) ‘The rediscovery of the Penzance Borough Cross’, Cornwall Archaeology Society Newsletter, 170, pp. 9-11.

Contributions to books, articles and research projects

Some of my most useful work appears within larger collaborative projects. That often includes 3D survey, enhanced imagery, close surface analysis, technical input and interpretation of difficult material.

• Preston-Jones, A. and Okasha, E. (2013) Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, XI: Early Cornish Sculpture. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. Contribution of four plates, identification of early medieval carvings and commentary on photogrammetry methodology.
• Jones, A.M. and Quinnell, H. (2022) ‘Tregiffian entrance grave, St Buryan, Cornwall: excavations 1967-72’, Cornish Archaeology, 61, pp. 1-34. Contribution of 3D survey, technical information and enhanced surface images revealing cup marks.
• Valdez-Tullett, J. et al. (2023) ‘Revealing the earliest animal engravings in Scotland: the Dunchraigaig deer, Kilmartin’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 33(2), pp. 281-307. Contribution of digital analysis and enhanced images of the engravings.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions are an important part of my work because they bring research, interpretation and public engagement together in a tangible way. My exhibition work ranges from digital visualisation in major institutions to more locally rooted projects shaped by archival research, oral material and community knowledge.

Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007)

Audio-visual installation for the Society of Antiquaries at Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007, including a 3D fly-through of the Stonehenge landscape using LiDAR.

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury (2008)

Audio-visual installation for the Society of Antiquaries at Making History: 300 Years of Antiquaries in Britain, including a 3D fly-through of the Stonehenge landscape using LiDAR, 3D visualisation of the skull and bones of the Amesbury Archer, and 3D visualisation of First and Second World War graffiti carved into trees on Salisbury Plain.

Guise Dancing: A Cornish wintertime mumming tradition (2016)

Pop-up exhibition in a large retail space in Penzance, attracting more than 2,000 visitors within 14 days. The exhibition included community donations of costumes and props from this vibrant Christmastime folk tradition.

Golowan: The origins of Penzance’s midsummer festival (2021)

Large pop-up exhibition taking over the entire retail space of a former Argos store. Despite COVID restrictions, the exhibition attracted around 1,500 visitors and drew on more than 4,000 words of original research, tracing the history of the midsummer celebrations in Penzance from the eighteenth century to the present revival.

Faddying it thro’ the Streets: the earliest accounts of Helston’s Flora Day (2024)

Exhibition at the Museum of Cornish Life bringing together rare and early descriptions, opinions and music relating to Helston’s annual spring festival, alongside a curated display of related collection material.

Selected talks and lectures

These selected talks reflect the main strands of my work over time: 3D recording, surface analysis, interpretation, difficult material, and more recent work with artificial intelligence in archaeology.

• The Stonehenge Laser Scan Project. Joint paper at the British Academy, London. April 2004.
• Challenges and possibilities for the adoption of Reflectance Transformation Imaging in the UK’s commercial archaeology sector. Digital Transformations: New developments in cultural heritage imaging at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford. 25 February 2011.
• Reading the unreadable: 3D scanning and enhancing the Cunaide Stone inscription. Lecture for Hayle Heritage Centre, Hayle, Cornwall. 3 July 2019.
• Surface analysis and artificial intelligence for archaeologists. Lecture for Meneage Archaeology Group (MAG). 25 February 2023.
• Digital Stones – Unlocking Cornwall’s past using 3D technology and Artificial Intelligence. Lecture for In Search of Tywardreath. 22 May 2025.

Papers, talks, lectures & webinars

Public speaking has been one of the ways I have shared work with archaeologists, curators, students, heritage professionals and wider audiences. The subjects range from 3D capture and digital public engagement to inscribed stones, rock art, surface analysis and AI in archaeology.

• The Stonehenge Laser Scan Project. Joint paper at the British Academy, London. April 2004.
• Lasers and Archaeology. Lecture at King’s College, Taunton. June 2004.
• Visualising 3D Laser Scans. Computer Applications in Archaeology UK (CAAUK) conference. January 2005.
• Web 2.0 and Archaeology. Paper with the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) Director, Mike Heyworth. Institute for Archaeologists conference, Edinburgh. April 2006.
• Podcasting – should museums listen? Lecture at the Museums Association Digital Dialogues conference, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. June 2007.
• 3D Visualisation in Archaeology. Lecture to CBA Wessex at Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire. July 2007.
• Using digital technology to visualise the past. Lecture with Stuart Eve at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. January 2011.
• Challenges and possibilities for the adoption of Reflectance Transformation Imaging in the UK’s commercial archaeology sector. Digital Transformations: New developments in cultural heritage imaging at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford. 25 February 2011.
• Digital Archaeology. Talk at Falmouth University, Cornwall. 31 May 2013.
• Digital surface recording in archaeology: some recent case studies from Cornwall. Talk for the Cornwall Archaeological Society, Truro. 7 November 2013.
• Digital Public Engagement. Lecture for the MA Public Archaeology course at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London. 17 March 2014.
• Do you see what I see? Examining 3D data in archaeology. Talk for the Cornwall Archaeological Society, Truro. 5 November 2015.
• The Morrab Library Photographic Archive. Talk with Mary Ellery (Chair of the Morrab Library) for the Rotary Club of Penzance, Cornwall. 17 March 2016.
• 3D capture in Archaeology. Talk for Kernow DAT (Dev/Art/Tech), Penzance. 15 September 2016.
• New Light on Inscribed Stones in West Penwith. Lecture for the Cornwall Archaeological Society annual conference, Archaeology in Cornwall. Penzance, 26 November 2016.
• 3D Technologies in Archaeology. Lecture for Café Scientifique, Redruth, Cornwall. 19 January 2018.
• Reading the unreadable: 3D scanning and enhancing the Cunaide Stone inscription. Lecture for Hayle Heritage Centre, Hayle, Cornwall. 3 July 2019.
• Successfully Capture any Object in 3D. Webinar for Scenario. Online, 19 May 2022.
• Surface analysis and artificial intelligence for archaeologists. Lecture for Meneage Archaeology Group (MAG). 25 February 2023.
• Guise Dancing: The main tradition at Montol. Talk for Cornish Heritage in Penzance. 18 December 2023.
• Teasing information from stones in Cornwall: using 3D and AI to reveal hidden details on carved surfaces. Lecture for Cornwall Archaeological Society. 18 January 2024.
• Curating “Faddying it thro’ the Streets: The earliest accounts of Helston’s Flora Day”. Lecture on folk customs for the Museum of Cornish Life. 30 April 2024.
• Wintertide Customs of Old Penzance. Lecture for Penzance Old Cornwall Society. 15 October 2024.
• Digital Stones – Unlocking Cornwall’s past using 3D technology and Artificial Intelligence. Lecture for In Search of Tywardreath. 22 May 2025.

Collaboration

Much of this work has been collaborative. Some entries are sole-authored, while others reflect contributions to larger research, publication, exhibition or interpretation projects. That is an important part of how I work. I am often brought in not simply to record something, but to help a team see it more clearly and make better use of the evidence.