Stratascan Ltd - Engineering, Archaeological & Environmental Investigations

Exhibitions/ Conferences.

Stratascan attend several exhibitions / conferences a year, this relating to archaeology, engineering forensics utility mapping and civil engineering. While we are there we usually take the opportunity to present a paper or poster. Below is a few of the paper / poster from the more recent conferences we have attended.

Eigg conference 2008 - The impact of meteorites on Archaology
The majority of research into impact craters from extraterrestrial objects has been focused on large scale collisions and their physical effect on the Earth. There has been little study of smaller scale impacts, and the effect that they may have had on the man made landscape.

GPR conference 2008 - Detection of historic burials using GPR
The detection of burials using geophysical methods has long proved to be problematic and can depend on many variables which are often unknown in advance. This paper will focus on the use of ground probing radar in identifying a series of different types of burial

GPR 2008 - Talk on canals and locks
The 18th and 19th centuries saw an extensive network of canals being built in the UK totaling some 2000 miles (3200 km). These were primarily built for commercial operation linking rivers and industrial centers to allow the transportation of raw materials and goods associated with the industrial revolution. With the advent of rail transport and more latterly improved road communications many of these canals were progressively closed until in the 1950?s a low point was reached. Since then a renaissance has occurred for leisure and recreational purposes with many lengths of canal being refurbished and closed canals re-opened.