Dover Western Docks
The Elizabethan harbour wall and four centuries of waterfront timbers, recorded in situ before they were dismantled.
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01 · Brief
The Dover Western Docks Revival dig uncovered Digges Wall, the Tudor harbour works commissioned by Elizabeth I, along with seventeenth-century piling by Bernard de Gomme, an eighteenth-century groyne and later dockyard and wartime structures. Waterlogged, shored and on a live engineering site, all of it had to be recorded before removal.
02 · Toolbox
- Terrestrial laser scanners
- Digital cameras
03 · On location
Scanning between the props and shoring as each phase came up, with the excavation timetable setting the pace. Photography alongside the scans for texture and for the record.
04 · Result
A measured, textured record of the timber structures as found, for the archaeologists' analysis and publication, made in the time the site could spare.
- Registered point cloud
- Textured meshes
- Orthographic renders
centuries of structures
scan set-ups
images
days on site
TODO marks 3 figures still to come from Kittiwake. Listed in docs/gaps.md.
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