Maryport lidar

Lidar from the usual source (EA). Slope severity plot looking NE, showing the setting of the Roman fort at Maryport very well.

Here, looking in much the same direction, a sky-view-factor plot showing the impressive detail of the surviving earthworks. Excavations have been ongoing for a year or two. Plenty there to go at.

Caerwent

The smaller scale image doesn't really do this justice. This is extracted from Environment Agency 0.25m centred lidar survey data. Not much UK coverage at this scale, mostly very tightly focused on coastal zones and river valleys, but they do happen to have covered the site of Venta Silurum. The detail of the wall circuit and bastions, and of exposed Roman building foundations within the town, is quite amazing (for what is, essentially, an off-the-shelf product).

Here, the same expressed as a sky-view factor plot and viewed as a 3D model from the south-west.

Durobrivae - Credenhill - Kenchester

Three lidar images at the same scale: Durobrivae, Credenhill hill fort in Herfordshire and the site of the Roman town at Kenchester a few kilometres to the south. Data courtesy of the Environment Agency again.

Roman sites in the lower Nene Valley

First draft of a map showing Roman sites in the general area of our ongoing excavations at Oundle near Peterborough. Perhaps what many would call the 'middle' Nene (at least I'm sure the Middle Nene Archaeological Group would), though from my point of view once the river hits Peterborough and enters the Fenland it's a whole different story. Topographic mapping using the OS Panorama dataset. Sites of Roman villas etc taken from a variety of (paper) sources and in need of checking (the villa at Cotterstock was clearly in the wrong place when dropped onto the topographic background, so I have doubts about others). Revised version in due course. This may do for our open day on the 16th June.