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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 This was superceded by a system of numbers with a letter prefix during the 1980s.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 98311 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-alignment. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98314 CS Hardacres 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 98315 CS Hardacres Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98316 CS Hardacres Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98317 CS Hardacres Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNE, centred on the cropmarks of a fort. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98318 CS Hardacres Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on the cropmarks of a fort. 11/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98275 CS Bedrule, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a double-ditched settlement. 9/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98276 CS Bedrule, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNE, centred on the cropmarks of a double-ditched settlement. 9/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98278 CS Bedrule, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of a double-ditched settlement. 9/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98279 CS Bedrule, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on the cropmarks of a double-ditched settlement. 9/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98277 CS Bedrule, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of a double-ditched settlement. 9/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55323 Longyester, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a palisaded settlement and a pit-alignment. A second palisaded settlement has been recorded to the SW but it is not visible on the photograph. 30/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55324 Longyester, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of a palisaded settlement and a pit-alignment. A second palisaded settlement has been recorded to the SW but it is not visible on the photograph. 30/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55325 Longyester, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on the cropmarks of a palisaded settlement and a pit-alignment. A second palisaded settlement has been recorded to the SW but it is not visible on the photograph. 30/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55326 Longyester, oblique aerial view, taken from the S, centred on the cropmarks of a palisaded settlement and a pit-alignment. A second palisaded settlement has been recorded to the SW but it is not visible on the photograph. 30/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 52938 CN Holywood, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on the cropmarks of the N half of the S cursus monument, with further cropmarks scattered across the same field. 10/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 52939 CN Holywood, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the cropmarks of the N half of the S cursus monument, and cropmarks scattered across the same field. 10/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 52940 CN Holywood, oblique aerial view, taken from the ENE, centred on the cropmarks of the N half of the S cursus monument, and cropmarks scattered across the same field. 10/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 52941 CN Holywood, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on the cropmarks of the N half of the S cursus monument, and cropmarks scattered across the same field. 10/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 52942 CN Holywood, oblique aerial view, taken from the ENE, centred on the cropmarks of the N half of the N cursus monument, and cropmarks scattered across the same field. 10/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 52943 CN Holywood, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on the cropmarks of the N half of the N cursus monument, and cropmarks scattered across the same field. 10/7/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 98313 CS Birkenside Hill, oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, 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 55277 Thirlestane Castle Park, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, showing part of the castle park and possible evidence of temporary stalls and huts for the horse trials. 30/8/1995 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images C 55279 Thirlestane Castle Park, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, showing part of the castle park and possible evidence of temporary stalls and huts for the horse trials. 30/8/1995 Item Level

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