@article{625edd9ab3d24cddba15c40f15ef9ca7,
title = "Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland",
abstract = "The increasing use of digital technologies can provide significant benefits to the excavation and interpretative process in archaeology. Yet, despite major developments in the last two decades, digital recording can still be seen as part of the realm of tech savvy archaeologists, well-funded projects, or larger commercial units who can develop their own recording systems or deploy a pre-existing application. The latter are often expensive and can be technologically challenging to implement, and few of these focus on both context recording and feature drawing. In response, this paper presents an accessible and flexible low-cost DIY digital workflow developed by the Comparative Kingship Project, Scotland, allowing field practitioners to benefit from some of the key advantages of “going digital” without the associated costs or complexities of some of the other systems",
keywords = "photogrammetry, drone, fieldwork, database design, methods",
author = "Edouard Masson-MacLean and James O'Driscoll and Cathy McIver and Gordon Noble",
note = "funding: The Leverhulme Trust Open access via Taylor and Francis Agreement Edouard Masson-MacLean and James O{\textquoteright}Driscoll contributed equally to this paper. We wish to thank three anonymous reviewers for their positive comments and constructive suggestions, which improved the original version of the paper. EMM also wishes to thank personally Dr. Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen) for the informal but valuable and stimulating discussions which helped shape some of the original ideas for this paper. The Comparative Kingship project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of a Research Leadership Award under Grant RL-2016-069. The original impetus for the digital recording was a Historic Environment Scotland grant RG14686 for work at Dunnicaer promontory fort developed by Cathy MacIver—this set the foundations for the workflow outlined above.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/00934690.2021.1970444",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "595–613",
journal = "Journal of Field Archaeology",
issn = "0093-4690",
publisher = "Maney Publishing",
number = "8",
}