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Pinning down the Keiller Cuttings – Part 3 (scheming and plotting)

This blog post is part of a series: read Part 1 here, and read Part 2 here. I have a confession. Much as I admire his surveying chops, Keiller’s approach to numbering and labelling (stones, cuttings, whatever) leaves me sobbing. Let me give you a flavour of what I mean. In an earlier post I […]

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Pinning down the Keiller Cuttings – Part 2 (Keiller makes a point)

Last week Mark shared Part 1 of this series – read it here first. Next step is to recreate Keiller’s excavation grid using the step-by-step measurements and drawings in his 1934-5 Plotting Book. I could have taken a digital approach from the outset, but to limber up, and better understand how the grid of planned […]

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Pinning Down the Keiller Cuttings – Part 1

Photograph of a page from Keiller's 1934-5 West Kennet Avenue Plotting Book, accession number 78510469, Alexander Keiller Museum. The plotting book is made with graph paper, and on this page are plan drawings of cuttings, or 'trenches', by Keiller, showing measurements.
Photograph of a page from Keiller's 1934-5 West Kennet Avenue Plotting Book, accession number 78510469, Alexander Keiller Museum. The plotting book is made with graph paper, and on this page are plan drawings of cuttings, or 'trenches', by Keiller, showing measurements.

One of the most vexing challenges in relation to the Keiller excavation archive relates to the precise locations of the trenches his team excavated – what he termed ‘cuttings’. One of the goals of the project is to create a series of georeferenced digital trench plans for each of the years of excavation. As to […]