Surveying of historical structures and topographical features at Fountains Abbey, Ripon, North Yorkshire.
Surveying of historical structures and topographical features at Fountains Abbey, Ripon, North Yorkshire.
2 PagesTYPE: Terrestrial laser scanning integrated with traditional topographical survey techniques. KEYWORDS: Historical digital archival recording by laser scanning technologies. INTRODUCTION At the request of the English Heritage Metric Survey Team, we were instructed to undertake a detailed topographical survey of the river course and a stone by stone elevation survey of the tunnel entrances at Fountains Abbey in North Y orkshire. Set in the Skell valley with cliff faces to either side and the river Skell running under the Abbey, Fountains Abbey is the largest monastic ruin in the country and a masterpiece of twelfth century building ingenuity. The Abbey was founded in 1132 by exiled monks and was admitted into the Cistercian Order three years later. One of the Abbeys most impor
