If you sit back and look at this, as I have have with my learned colleagues Monsieurs Stella and Artois, then you will realise that we are adventurers bent on acheiving the same goal. Leonid will take his Trimble and his skills and produce an Autocad model of a whole fortress in the blink of an eye. Soviet, now known as Alexander Meerkat and his sidekick Sergie will make sense of lots of old measurements and take some crucial new ones whilst drinking vodka and admiring Ukraine's ability to produce very tall and completely lovely ladies OR we could just all work together with a guy, who if he works for Trimble should be a top-notch surveyor, and produce the definitive plan of the site so all those lovely maps uploaded to the web might have some real purpose other than occupying virtual space.

 

Alexander Meerkat

The new 2009 season is set to start in July and will last most of the month. We aim to complete a full detailed survey of the fortress using a combination of a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), a total station and scaled photographs.   more »

Following the successful deployment of electrical resistance survey in 2007 the geophysical surveys team continued in 2008 with two further prospection techniques, gradiometry and ground penetrating radar (GPR). The application of the two geophysical survey methodologies, in addition to the resistivity of 2007, would, it was hoped, provide a more holistic approach to the investigation of the sub-surface remains at Akkerman. Gradiometry was used over a total area of 0.8ha within both the Garrison Yard and the Civil Yards. A number of ephemeral rectilinear anomalies could be observed along the base of the northwest section of the Civil Yard and the buildings, revealed during the 2007 resistivity survey, were also evident.   more »

The full report with all the images, is now available for viewing at http://www.akkermanfortress.org/architecture.html
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I have added a page containing various photographs from around the site taken in August 2007 and July 2008 by Richard Haddlesey.    more »

Google map of Akkerman Fortress, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine

           

     

Use the zoom feature to explore the Google Map and ...   more »

Anatolian Archaeology 2008 report on the progress made to date at the Akkerman Fortress project, Ukraine. The fortress of Akkerman (long. 30.35; lat. 46.20) is located on a promontory inside the estuary (liman) of the Dniester River   more »

This Blog will include updates on the Akkerman Fortress Project alongside the main site