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Non experts focus group concluded!

  • Venue: Rothbury
  • Start: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 09:40:00 GMT
  • End: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:00:00 GMT

At the beginning of November the “Heritage and Science: Working Together in the CARE of Rock Art” project held its second focus group, this time for rock art non-experts.

 

The event involved 9 non-experts who, along with the project team, visited the rock art at Lordenshaw so that they could test out the draft tool kit, which is one of the key deliverables of the project. A discussion was then held in Rothbury to gain feedback on possible improvements and changes to the tool kit.

 

The participants were mainly drawn from ramblers groups in the North East so they were certainly prepared for any conditions, however as it was the weather was perfect. The low autumn sunshine really picked out the rock art in a spectacular way.

 

The feedback on the tool kit was vital as part of project aim to co-produce its resources. There was lots of very useful feedback provided by the group, such as pointing out it was sometimes hard to distinguish a difference in the condition of motifs. An expert, such as Dr Mazel, is so used to seeing many motifs that this hadn’t been considered.  

 

The end product will help protect open-air rock art by creating a means for anyone to quickly evaluate the condition of rock art based on scientific research into potential risks to the stone.

 

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