{"id":2574,"date":"2018-06-27T20:17:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archaeovision.eu\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2018-06-27T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:19:57","slug":"lyndhurst-church-rti-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archaeovision.eu\/en\/projects\/lyndhurst-church-rti-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"New RTI Captures at Lyndhurst Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing our RTI project with the New Forest Park Authority, where we have completed a number of captures at Emery Down<\/a>,\u00a0Burley<\/a>\u00a0and Minstead<\/a>, and Copythorne<\/a>, Archaeovision spent a day at\u00a0St Michael & All Angels<\/a> church\u00a0in Lyndhurst capturing a number of gravestones, including Listed tomb (List entry 1094726)<\/a>. The\u00a0current church building, which is\u00a0the third on the site, was built between 1858-69 during the Victorian period.\u00a0The churchyard is known as the last resting place of Alice Hargreaves (who inspired the Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll) and contains a number of gravestones, all of which contain hard to read inscriptions.<\/p>\n

The recording completed by Archaeovision falls under the\u00a0Heritage Lottery funded\u00a0Our Past, Our Future<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>project which\u00a0incorporates\u00a0community based outreach within their\u00a0Rediscovering and Conserving Our Archaeological Heritage<\/a>\u00a0sub-project. This event also took place in collaboration with the New Forest Staff Discovery day.<\/p>\n

The results of the RTI survey, as well as the volunteer documentation project will\u00a0provide a snapshot of the graveyard today, and will help define a management plan for the graveyard for the future, whilst identifying monuments that require conservation.\u00a0All the data captured will be made publicly available, allowing residents or visitors to trace family members and their resting places, and local history groups to undertake research to discover more about the area’s past.<\/p>\n

The following RTI examples provide a before and after snapshot of the results collected at Lyndhurst. Similar to the inscriptions at Minstead, those found at Lyndhurst\u00a0are extremely worn and hard to decipher, even with RTI. The text has been digitised for those who may find it hard to identify all of the features, but parts of the inscriptions are missing due to the the deterioration\u00a0of the gravestones.<\/p>\n