Adam M Ibbotson 🏺
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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺
@adamibbotson.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, and champion of pop-archaeology. Windermere, UK ⭐️ Senior Lecturer at Shap University.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Is that your own photo?
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Have you played with performing local relief models on them? That was my first thought, and seems to work well for pulling out unseen etchings.
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Cheers. This is incredibly useful.
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Fantastic, cheers Tom.

Any links to those papers on specific sites? Would be good to see these methods in action.
October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Amazing, cheers Tom! I happened upon it via Cloud Compare.

I did mesh, to pointcloud, to raster, to geotiff.

Do you have any papers on it? I’d love to keep building on it.
October 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Here's a 'hillshade' model of the one I originally posted!
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It's a method I stumbled upon by accident a few weeks ago. You can analyse photogrammetry / LiDAR scans in GIS software. So, you can perform hillshade, slope, etcetera on rock art! Very useful.

It'd work wonders on Long Meg / Copt Howe. So they're next on my list.
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The mysterious discovery of Hadrian’s Wall in the Amazon jungle…

Would sell books.
October 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
@joanavaldez.bsky.social - do you know of anyone using a similar method to identify rock art??
October 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I love to read “excavations in 2025”.
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM