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#AARG #LiDAR #AerialSurvey #Archaeology #AerialArchaeology #RemoteSensing
January 21, 2026 at 10:52 AM
artefactual.bsky.social
Well this looks interesting for one of my #AerialArchaeology #RemoteSensing #GIS mutuals!

Might be an interested @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social member out there?
January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
The first AARG Fund call of 2026 is now open!
🔹Deadline: 15th February 26
AARG Fund supports archaeological projects, fieldwork & research with strong aerial and remote sensing components 🛰️
aargonline.com/wp/grants-bu...

#archaeology #remotesensing #aerialarchaeology #aarg #LiDAR
Grants & Scholarships
AARG offers funding for its members for projects that further the objectives of the Group and student scholarships for attendance at its annual meeting.
aargonline.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
We're always on the look out for contributions to our bi-annual newsletter, so keep an eye out for the call in the coming months 📣
#aarg #LiDAR #aerialarchaeology #archaeology #aerialphotography
January 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
As we emerge from the haze of festivities and feasting over Christmas and New Years, why not have a browse through our AARGNews back catalogue 📕 Link in the comments below.
All of our newsletters have been digitised and you can go right back to the 1st issue published in 1990! 📰
#aerialarchaeology
An AI generated image of Santa relaxing by the fire reading a paper entitled AARGNews
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
As 2025 draws to a close, we would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas & a relaxing festive season! We hope to see you back in 2026 for more aerial archaeology happenings!

Best wishes, your AARG Committee & Trustees

#archaeology #aarg #aerialarchaeology #remotesensing #satellite #LiDAR
The aarg Christmas card depicts some carefully selected aerial images with a Christmas message alongside
December 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
arstechni.ca
First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe https://arstechni.ca... #ancientpeopledidstuff #satellitearchaeology #aerialarchaeology #ancientcities #Archaeology #Kazakhstan #bronzeage #Science #science
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
Hot off the press - the current issue of #AARGnews is available to download 🎉 Issue 71 shares postcards from the 42nd #AARG Conference in Trondheim, plus articles from Central Bohemia to the Ukraine. 🌎
aargonline.com/wp/aarg-news/
Enjoy!
#archaeology #aerialarchaeology #remotesensing #ALS
The front cover of issue 71 of AARGnews showing a coastal landscape with details of the issue articles
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
An excellent work day taking @rcahmwales.bsky.social colleagues from the Archive & Reader Services teams flying, to see how the air photos they work with are taken 🛩️

South Pembrokeshire delivered on castles, country houses & gun forts despite the overcast day 👌

#AerialArchaeology
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#HillfortsWednesday Ringforts are so bizarrely circular they almost don't seem real to me...

I think this one shows what I mean... Chûn Castle near Penzance in #Cornwall

📸 By user Horatio on Megalithic Portal

🏺 #archaeology #aerialarchaeology #photooftheday
An aerial shot of a rough grassy hill with a perfectly circular ring of stones and earthen banks in the centre. In the distance stretches patchy fields to the horizon
September 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
welwynarchsoc.bsky.social
In the drought of 1976 we had an amazing crop of aerial photographs of archaeological sites. Given the number of comparisons being drawn between 1976 and this year, are we getting similar images?
#archaeology #AerialArchaeology @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
dpmanchee.bsky.social
Soil moisture anomalies just build and build over coming days - esp in eastern parts of Wales. These products from Czech Global via Windy dot com 👇

Should be a few days good flying for #aerialarchaeology

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#AncientBlueSky
July 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
Back in the hot 🔥🔥 office this afternoon...

#aerialarchaeology #drought #AncientBlueSky
A Cessna 172 cockpit
July 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
john-fielding.bsky.social
Castle Bytham aerial image - in Lincolnshire. Built by William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. Held by the 3rd Earl of Abermarle against King Henry III in 1221. Besieged & destroyed by the king in 1224 #CastleBytham #aerial #image #castle #aerialarchaeology
June 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
Fuelling the Cessna 172 for another long archaeological reconnaissance flight this afternoon 🛩️☀️

#Flying #Reconnaissance #AerialArchaeology
A white aeroplane being fuelled into its wing tanks at a small airport with blue skies & a hangar beyond
May 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
The glorious north coast of Cymru/Wales today, looking north-west along the Dee Estuary towards Mostyn Quay from 2000ft ☀️☀️

📷 Mobile phone shot taken during wide-ranging @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial reconnaissance from Pembrokeshire to central & north-eastern Wales 🛩️

#AerialArchaeology
A wide coastal landscape with the estuary & sandbanks to the right & a wing strut of a light aircraft across the picture
May 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
The call for oral presentations is now closed, but we are still accepting poster proposals. If you wish to present your work in poster format, please submit your proposal using the registration form available at: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
#aerialarchaeology #remotesensing
May 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
A final reminder that the Call for Papers for the 2025 AARG Meeting in Trondheim will close on Thursday 15th May 2025, you can find further details on our website: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
#aerialarchaeology #remotesensing
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · May 2
Good news, the Call for Papers for the 2025 AARG Meeting in Trondheim has been extended and will now close on Thursday 15th May 2025, you can find further details on our website: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
May 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
drtobydriver.bsky.social
The view over St David's Head & Ramsey Island, west Pembrokeshire, this afternoon during @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey ☀️🛩️

Glorious clear air but a bumpy north wind & freezing 🥶 with the window open for photography

📷 Mobile phone pic from 2000ft

#AerialArchaeology
Aerial photo with long rocky headland in foreground & an island in the blue sea beyond
May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
💣💣💣One week to go! Call for Papers for AARG 2025 closes on 30th April! Submit your abstract here: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa... and join us for two days of #aerialarchaeology and #remotesensing by the Trondheim fjord! 🛰️🛫📷
April 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
Call for Papers for AARG 2025 closes in two weeks! Get your submissions ready and fire them our way using the registration form here: aargonline.com/wp/events/aa...
#aerialarchaeology #remotesensing
April 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
We are proud to be a part of that publication, which builds on the sector survey done by AARG a couple of years ago, and most of the contributors are 🛰🛩 AARG members 💪

Publication available for download here:
zenodo.org/records/1460...

#aerialarchaeology #remotesensing
Guidelines for the use of Airborne Laser Scanning (Lidar) in Archaeology (EAC Guidelines 10)
Airborne Laser Scanning (sometimes referred to as lidar) has been described as revolutionary for the understanding and management of cultural landscapes. The ability to create highly accurate three di...
zenodo.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Woden Law hillfort in SE Scotland, showing the complex set of earthwork defences. It lies very close to a Roman road, with Roman camps less than 2km away

You wonder how well that relationship went 🤔

#HillfortsWednesday

🏺📸Historic Environment Scotland #archaeology #aerialarchaeology #photooftheday
An aerial shot of a hill with multiple sets of earthwork defences ringed around the top. In the background the hill slopes off into the distance
April 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
What a treat, it's #WorldTheatreDay AND #RomanFortThursday!

Here's a fabulous artist's reconstruction of the (amphi-)theatre at Richborough Roman Fort in Kent by Simon Edwards, and the field it's buried under today...

"Oh woe to the passage of time"

#archaeology #aerialarchaeology #photooftheday🏺
An artists reconstuction of a Roman amphitheatre from above in the middle of a green field, with gladiators in the centre, and outside a row of tents and stalls with people miling about. Image: Simon Edwards An aerial shot of a blank green field with a slight dip in the centre, surrounded by a circular fence. Photo: English Heritage.
March 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
aerialarchaeology.bsky.social
📢 Spring has arrived, and so has the next round of AARG Fund applications!🌿✨
🔹Deadline: 16th April 2025
🔹Max award: £1000
The fund supports archaeological projects, fieldwork, and research with strong aerial and remote sensing components.
Details at aargonline.com/wp/grants-sc...
#AerialArchaeology
Grants & Scholarships
AARG offers funding for its members for projects that further the objectives of the Group and student scholarships for attendance at its annual meeting.
aargonline.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM