PhysOrg.com [USA], May 13, 2010
The very latest laser technology combined with old fashioned pedal power
is being used to provide a unique insight into the layout of
Nottingham's sandstone caves – where the city's renowned medieval ale
was brewed and, where legend has it, the country's most famous outlaw
Robin Hood was imprisoned.
The Nottingham Caves Survey, being carried out by archaeologists from
Trent & Peak Archaeology at The University of Nottingham, has already
produced extraordinary, three dimensional, fly through, colour animation
of caves that have been hidden from view for centuries.
Below the grounds of Nottingham Castle and across the city there is a
labyrinth of medieval tunnels, dungeons, maltings and cellars – people
even carved primitive living quarters out of Nottingham's sandstone
cliffs. The man-made caves, cut into the strata of rock known as
Sherwood Sandstone, are being recorded by laser scanners, which produce
up to 500,000 survey points a second, enabling us to see these
excavations as never before.
http://www.physorg.com/news192973699.html
See also The Nottingham Caves
Survey Homepage: http://www.nottinghamcavessurvey.org.uk/index.htm
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