{"id":31453,"date":"2021-10-19T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31453"},"modified":"2021-10-19T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:53:47","slug":"30-years-in-the-making-he-opens-aerial-photography-project-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31453","title":{"rendered":"30 years in the making: HE opens aerial photography project to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Historic England (HE) has opened an aerial photography project to the public, with a virtual aerial map for researchers reaching back up to 6000 years ago.<\/h3>\n

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\u2026 Duncan Wilson, CEO of Historic England said, \u2018will allow everyone to explore the hidden heritage of their local places\u2019 \u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Museums and Heritage<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

Historic England has made the results of over 30 years of aerial photograph mapping projects available online to the public.<\/p>\n

The digital map pieces together archaeological landscapes recorded during analysis of over 500,000 aerial photographs, which cover around half of England.<\/p>\n

Features Roman settlements near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, Second World War defences in Southampton in Hampshire, and secret Cold War military installations across England.<\/p>\n

Historic England said the map contains thousands of archaeological sites that have been identified on aerial photographs and from imagery derived from using laser light to create a 3D representation of the Earth\u2019s surface, a technology known as lidar.<\/p>\n

The earliest sites mapped date to around 6000 years ago and include long barrows, flint mines and causewayed enclosures of the Early Neolithic period.<\/p>\n

The most recent sites belong to the second half of the 20th century, which include those associated with the Cold War.<\/p>\n

There are also Bronze Age round barrows, Iron Age hillforts, Roman camps, settlements, trackways and field systems which represent several millennia of activity.<\/p>\n

Historic England said the mapping allows the archaeological features to be seen not just as individual sites, but as part of complex, multi-period landscapes.<\/p>\n

The online tool, Duncan Wilson, CEO of Historic England said, \u201cwill allow everyone to explore the hidden heritage of their local places\u201d for both research and public curiosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historic sites on the map are annotated with a link to the full Historic Environment records held online, and for most of the areas mapped there is also a free report detailing the highlights and new discoveries encountered in each project.<\/p>\n

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