Documentation Of Conserved Timbers: Experiences From Western Norway.

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

As part of the author's current PhD project, the so-called 3D annotated scans method is being applied to conserved nautical timbers from museum collections in Western Norway. The project aims to produce a detailed study of shipbuilding in W-Norway during the Late Iron Age; thus, high-resolution documentation of these timbers is necessary. Indeed, conserved material is often dismissed as unworthy of (re)study due to the handling process, which has masked valuable information such as tool marks. Since the publication of the 3D annotated scans method, new developments in software and hardware of the Artec structured-light scanners have provided an increased resolution and new tools for texturing. These, in return, have helped record information otherwise not easily accessible or visible with other similar documentation methods. Thus, this paper aims to present workflow, results and discussion on the methodology and its added value for documenting conserved timbers lying "forgotten" in museum collections.

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