Members of this group might find the following question, posted by Dan O'Donnell to the Digital Classicist group, of interest:

Hi all,

For a grant application, I need to submit quotes on field laser scanning. We need to scan the Bewcastle, Ruthwell, and perhaps Brussels crosses to a very high degree of detail. Ruthwell is in a church, Bewcastle exposed in a field, and Brussels in a cathedral treasury. Ruthwell and Bewcastle are stone and around 15 feet tall; Brussels is partially gilt, and a couple of feet tall at most. We may use a different technique on Brussels.

In the past we've used Archaeoptics, but my understanding is that they are now defunct. We also have had quotes from the CNS in Pisa. Does anybody have other recommendations? Obviously vendors in the U.K. would be obvious choices, but our experience is that the travel costs are not the largest part of the expense and that vendors on the continent can compete with British vendors quite well.

I greatly appreciate any suggestions!

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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/