13th December 2008, 11:55 AM
Have to say the main contractors were as good as gold...
The uses are more applicable to building recording than watching briefs for below ground activities. It has a number of other uses.
The first time I did this it allowed to me to monitor the progress of the archaeological contractor and cut down on the number of monitoring visits. If something was found that I or the curator needed to see than the camera was trained on that and we discussed it on the phone. A variation on this is a photo is taken on a mobile phone on site and sent to me.
The webcam allows you to check on progress so that you know when they are going to do the relevant work. In this case when the flood water receeded controlled when the wb would continue. Nobody had any real idea when this would be.
As you say one benefit is that the contractor cant get away with things but more to the point there is security against looters/vandals etc.
For recording building demolitions the idea is that you could have several cameras mounted on tripods etc so that a plan/elevation could be derived. What I do now for such watching briefs is use a telephoto lense so that I donot have to go anywhere near the actual buildings when active demolition is taking place. Using digital CCTV is thus a variation on a theme.
It also has the advantage that the public can see what is going on when it is too dangerous for them to be anywhere near the site. In the first month there 300,000 hits on the webcam.
One of the things I found interesting about recording the pavilion was the technology behind cricket such as the acccurracy of the radar for predicting when the rain would stop.
I am happy for the spin off from cricket archaeology to be discussed on this thread.
The DC archaeologist found the web cam useful as well.
Dr Peter Wardle
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Wardle
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/statsguru...22288.html
The greatest ever spin bowler
The uses are more applicable to building recording than watching briefs for below ground activities. It has a number of other uses.
The first time I did this it allowed to me to monitor the progress of the archaeological contractor and cut down on the number of monitoring visits. If something was found that I or the curator needed to see than the camera was trained on that and we discussed it on the phone. A variation on this is a photo is taken on a mobile phone on site and sent to me.
The webcam allows you to check on progress so that you know when they are going to do the relevant work. In this case when the flood water receeded controlled when the wb would continue. Nobody had any real idea when this would be.
As you say one benefit is that the contractor cant get away with things but more to the point there is security against looters/vandals etc.
For recording building demolitions the idea is that you could have several cameras mounted on tripods etc so that a plan/elevation could be derived. What I do now for such watching briefs is use a telephoto lense so that I donot have to go anywhere near the actual buildings when active demolition is taking place. Using digital CCTV is thus a variation on a theme.
It also has the advantage that the public can see what is going on when it is too dangerous for them to be anywhere near the site. In the first month there 300,000 hits on the webcam.
One of the things I found interesting about recording the pavilion was the technology behind cricket such as the acccurracy of the radar for predicting when the rain would stop.
I am happy for the spin off from cricket archaeology to be discussed on this thread.
The DC archaeologist found the web cam useful as well.
Dr Peter Wardle
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Wardle
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/statsguru...22288.html
The greatest ever spin bowler