ACCORD with the Rhynie Woman Group

ACCORD was an AHRC funded research project that took place from October 2013 to March 2015 and was a collaboration between the Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Manchester, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and Archaeology Scotland. In the summer of 2014 the ACCORD project worked together with communities across Scotland to co-design and co-produce 3-Dimensional digital models of heritage places and monuments. We explored how forms of community-based social value associated with sites and places can be addressed and transformed through engagement with 3D digital technologies. The project worked together with 10 community groups across Scotland that have ongoing relationships to heritage places. The ACCORD team worked with the Friends of the Rhynie Woman group from the 29th to the 31st of August 2014. Together we modelled and recorded a standing stone with Pictish symbols known as the 'Craw Stane', another Pictish symbol stone in the town square and two headstones in the Rhynie churchyard, one 18th Century and the other 19th Century. We used the techniques of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and photogrammetry.