Friday 13th February 2020

Today we were back at Conistone, St Mary’s, to continue with the total station, kindly brought over by Toby from the DEBS project. He also brought with him two postgrad students, Laura and Erica, who wanted to learn about RTI photography. 

Since Alan was away on holiday I demonstrated RTI, with Tony’s help, and then let the students carry their own RTI on a gravestone. 

Then it was into the very cold church to process the photographs on the laptop – again I demonstrated the process, then let Erica and Laura process the second set of photographs by themselves.

They did an excellent job – picking up the whole technique straightaway. They were a delight to teach, and I really enjoyed my day with them both. 

Meanwhile the others tried completing the GPS survey of gravestones on the north side – but as the weather started to close in they were hampered by various factors, and by lunchtime had managed 2 rows. Over lunch we could see the skies darkening and sadly, decided we had to call it a day. 

Jane Lunnon