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Feature
site:
Aerial Archaeology
http://www.wdi.co.uk/air/
This website is dedicated to the aerial photography of archeological sites in Dorset, England. All pictures were taken by a Ms. Francesca Radcliff, and the site is maintained by Dagleish Designs, a company that deals with photographs and other visual media. The content and structure of the site are under the discretion of Ms. Radcliff. The purpose of the site is to make the photography of Ms. Radcliff available to the public. Her photos of the countryside sites are taken from a bird’s perspective, revealing traces of historical earthworks and dwelling places that would not be easily observable from ground level. The entire collection of nearly 10,000 photographs and slides will eventually be housed in the Dorset Museum. About two dozen photographs are available on the site, along with a small map of Dorset that points out where many of the pictures were taken. Links to other archeological sites and sites featuring aerial photography are also available. The set up is very friendly, and each photograph has a small bit of its history posted next to it. The ease and straight forwardness of the site make it suitable for young students to understand, but experts in archeology would probably enjoy the photos, but the information on the sites themselves is pretty bare bones. It would be extremely useful to a teacher who wished to show how changes made to the environment are very far reaching, as some of the earthworks are many hundreds of years old. Middle and early High school teachers would perhaps benefit the most from this page.
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