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Hi all.
Anyone know of any websites that provide this service, preferably free.
I cant find anything anywhere.
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Thank you Mike
Looks like i gotta work on that one then.
Maybee in a few years it will be free like Google Earth.
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USGIS only covers the USA though, not Europe.
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Most, if not all, archaeological companies offer LIDAR as a service but as Mike says it is not cheap.
You also need to bear in mind that LIDAR is only part of the tool set you need to interpret what the radar shows you and , if you go for an independent person, be aware that the quality of the report is directly proportional to the skill of the practitioner. It will not be the first time that a land drain is claimed to be a defensive ditch which a simple look at the land records would have shown you.
Contacting Exeter University may be a good start. I know their archaeology department is no more, but there is still a strong department whom I have always found to be very helpful with queries and generous with their time.
Failing that, the records office in Exeter (which used to be the first stop for any dig recce) hold tithe maps etc a lot of which show lines of disused Roman roads which were used as boundaries between land ownership. You would be amazed at what was still around relatively late into the 19th Century but sadly has not survived modern farming methods.
Good luck!
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It's worth adding that all the previously unknown Roman roads I have found have appeared through aerial photography, geophysics, or even digging them up when there was no absolutely no sign above ground. Lidar is good for uncultivated (or lightly farmed, especially pasture) and can be brilliant in forested areas (whether wildwood or plantation), but there is nary an agger that shows up on lidar that can't actually be seen on the ground (especially following all the other clues Margary & co list), so fieldwalking a route is usually your best weapon, using Google Earth for the recce. As an example, English Heritage did a superb survey of Savernake Forest, showing all sorts of landscape features (including the Roman roads in there). Of course, you can find all of it by stumbling about in there (been there, done it, tick), but it is much easier to map from such an airborne survey, rather than planetabling your way through trees, and gets around problems of permissions and accessibility.
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Thank you all for the info on this topic. I shall take in all that i can and read everything again over and over, including my Margary book.
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The Geomatics site isn't bad at all, non commercial use is ten quid per km square, and the previews are pretty good. I've found it good value, particularly for looking through tree canopies,
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Sounds promising....I'll give it a go.
Not quiet "Google Lidar" i was looking for as my searches take me over several miles here in Southwest England. Time to persevere, and thanks to all who contributed.
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