Digitized archaeology is making souterrains—subterranean passages in the Highlands—accessible in a way Indiana Jones could only dream of.
Graeme Cavers and his team of archaeologists set off in search of a mysterious underground passage called a souterrain. There are around 500 of these Iron Age structures scattered throughout the Scottish Highlands, but nobody knows what they were built for, and no one has ever discovered one intact.
Site surveys can help shed light on the condition and structure of souterrains, but they can take at least a week using traditional methods, says Cavers, whose company AOC Archaeology was enlisted by Ritchie to help map the Cracknie Souterrain in Scotland’s Borgie Forest. The tech has developed a long way since then. After crawling into the Cracknie Souterrain through a 50-centimeter opening in the ground, Cavers was handed a gray device the size of a shoebox: a Leica BLK360 laser scanner.
Collecting large data sets presents a challenge in itself. “Today, we’re coming back with half a terabyte” of data, he says. “And we might do a couple of hundred projects in a year. It starts to get very difficult to manage from an IT point of view. And obviously we’re archaeologists; we’re supposed to be creating archives that are perpetual, for the long term.”
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