Plans roaring ahead for Visionary Cross scanning
The preparation is coming together for the scanning of the Ruthwell Cross… and it involves some skills they never taught me in gradschool!
Thanks to Paul Beaton of Historic Scotland and Anne Baxter of the University of Lethbridge, I’ve had a crash course in project and site management and what it means to be working above the ground at an archaeological site. I have to do some height and fall training with our physical plant (fortunately, there’s a scaffold I can train on behind the water building), and then renew my first aid with St. John’s ambulance. Hard hats, first aid kits, steel toed shoes… we’re not in the manuscript library any more!