Lawrence Shaw

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Over the last two weeks I have been playing with the 3D modeling software AgiSoft. This software works by creating a point cloud from a number of photographs and then give you the facility to build geometry around these points and also add texture from the photographs. Having recently undertaken the position as the Qatar [...]

The sun is shining and the weather is sweat. It is unlikely that Bob Marly was singing about the island of Hvar off the south coast of Croatia, but that is the song that kept running through my head all last week whilst on my late summer holidays. This fantastically beautiful, history rich island has [...]

The grey and chilly morning of Monday 19th September saw the completion of my masters dissertation in Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Virtual Environments at the University of Birmingham. With the same title as this blog, my project looked to investigate how individuals could use smartphones to further their landscape experience, understandings and interpretations. For this [...]

Over the last two years I have been fortunate enough to be part of the Google Under the Earth: Seeing-beneath-Stonehenge project. Funded by the Google Research Program and based at Bournemouth University, this project has created an interactive layer within Google Earth, which draws from the information and data gathered during the six years of [...]

So its the summer research season and where better to be than the Stonehenge landscape surveying with the University of Birmingham and LBI, to undertake a rapid, high detailed geophysical and laser scan survey of the landscape. At the end of the first week of survey I headed to Surrey for a spot of light [...]

After a busy month, this week saw me finish two casual jobs for Bournemouth University. After finishing a site supervisor role on the Big Dig on Sunday, today saw the completion of the final bit of work on the Google: Seeing-beneath-Stonehenge Project (blog to follow). Heading for a celebratory coffee with my colleague Mark Dover, [...]

Having been involved in archaeological surveying for several years now, I had never come across the use of tacheometry until recently. Through the use of a dumpy level and a survey staff, both the distance, as well as the level (horizontal and vertical) of a location can be calculated. The real beauty of this process is [...]

Hello and welcome to my bio page. My name is Lawrence Shaw and I am a landscape archaeologist who specialises in geo-informatics, survey and digital archaeology. Having completed my undergrad studies at Bournemouth University and whilst currently studying for my MA in Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Virtual Environments at the University of Birmingham, I have [...]