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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

551 177

Description RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Date 1975 to 2006

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number 551 177

Category All Other

Scope and Content This collection contains photographic and manuscript materials from the pre-digital age including: negatives from aerial photography sorties (black and white and colour); prints from aerial photography sorties (black and white and colour); colour 35mm slides from aerial photography sorties; flight logs.

Archive History This material has always remained in the custody of HES and its predecessor organisations; it has been appraised in line with the HES Appraisal Policy. Until the 1980s RCAHMS photography was ordered according to the county system. This was superceded by a system of numbers with a letter prefix during the 1980s. During a mass digitisation project 2017-18 the photographic prints were digitised and the collection put into its current arrangement.

System of Arrangement This material is arranged by year and sorties.

Related Material RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital GB 551 178; Historic Environment Scotland records: GB 551/500/1/1

Access Conditions None

Administrative History RCAHMS established its aerial survey function in 1976, having conducted some trial flights in the previous year. The initial focus was on discovering and recording sites at threat from cultivation, especially cropmarks in lowland areas. The scope soon expanded to include recording of earthworks in upland areas and architectural sites. In a staged process between 2003 and 2005 aerial photography switched to digital which is held in the HES Digital Archive as a separate collection. The aerial survey function was retained in the creation of Historic Environment Scotland though by this time only used digital photography.

Accruals No further analogue materials will be created.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1176476

Collection Hierarchy - Collection Level

Collection Level (551 177) RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55262 Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55019 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of a barrow, and a linear cropmark. The cropmarks of a moated site, and the remains of a kerb cairn, are visible in the bottom half of the photograph. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55020 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the cropmarks of a moated site. The remains of a kerb cairn are visible in the top left-hand corner of the photograph. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55021 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a moated site. The remains of a kerb cairn, and cropmarks of a barrow, are visible in the top half of the photograph. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55219 Park Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, showing a hill figure in the bottom half of the photograph. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55263 Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98544 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98545 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55022 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on the cropmarks of a moated site. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55023 Monzie, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on the cropmarks of a moated site. 17/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98486 CS Medwyn Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on the cropmarks of quarry-pits and the route of the Border-Crawford-Inveresk Roman Road. 21/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98487 CS Medwyn Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, centred on the cropmarks of quarry-pits and the route of the Border-Crawford-Inveresk Roman Road. 21/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98488 CS Medwyn Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, centred on the cropmarks of quarry-pits and the route of the Border-Crawford-Inveresk Roman Road. 21/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98546 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98547 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98548 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a pit-circle, mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98542 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98543 CS Carsie Mains, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, showing the cropmarks of a series of pit features including a mortuary enclosure and pit-alignment. 28/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98308 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort, enclosures, pit-alignment and linear cropmarks. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98306 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, centred on the cropmarks of a fort, enclosures, pit-alignment and linear cropmarks. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98312 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort, enclosures, pit-alignment and linear cropmarks. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98304 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort, enclosures, and linear cropmarks. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98309 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98310 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the S, centred on the cropmarks of enclosures and a linear cropmark. 11/8/1995 Item Level

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