Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] 3D images > On a recent trip down the Ards peninsula, the Chapple family stopped at the beautifully preserved site of Greyabbey . The site is believed to date from 1193, when this Cistercian abbey-monastery was founded by Affreca, wife of John de Courcy , the Anglo-Norman conqueror of Ulster. The surviving tradition is that Affreca founded the abbey in gratitude for a particularly difficult sea voyage – making it the only Cistercian monastery on the island to have been founded by a woman. The foundation was set up as a daughter house of the Cistercian monastery at Holmcultram , in Cumberland, and the two maintained close ...

< Back to main post For those, like myself, who get a kick from this form of photography, I present a number of my experiments in creating 3D images (anaglyphs). Information on glasses and other 3D images in this blog may be found here . [click for larger images] The west doorway Overview of Abbey from the graveyard The Refectory South wall of Refectory Doorway into the Nave Doorway Overview of Abbey from the south-west < Back to main post

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] 3D images > SS Nomadic today in the Hamilton Graving Dock Belfast has a long history as a centre of marine commerce and construction. Of all the thousands of boats and ships built here, one name stands out above the others: Titanic . Pretty much everyone knows the story of how it was built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff – along with sister ships Olympic and Britannic – and, after encountering an iceberg, went to a watery grave somewhere in the North Atlantic, around 450 miles east of New York. You’ve seen the movie , listened to endless renditions of that song , and had the opportunity to buy all sorts of Titani...