Monuments from the Air

In 2001, as part of a wide-ranging project covering the archaeology and geomorphology of the Milfield Basin in North Northumberland, 1:10,000 scale mapping of all the archaeological sites that had been recorded by air photography was commissioned from Air Photo Services at Cambridge. The work of transcription was carried out by Roger Palmer with assistance from Lidia Żuk using the ‘AirPhoto’ transformation programme developed by Irwin Scollar. The resulting maps cover a territory of 225 square kilometres, or nine contiguous Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 quarter sheets (Fig. 3.1). The present report is intended to be read in conjunction with the companion