Back at the end of October (around Halloween), my Archaeology office partner Helen Goodchild and I teamed up with battlefield archaeologist Tim Sutherland to try to record the almost invisible medieval inscription on a tomb at Saxton parish church. This is supposed to be the final resting place of Lord Dacre, killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461 and buried in the nearby cemetery at Saxton.
The inscription has almost completely weathered away. To bring it back, and to record what's left accurately, we used an RTI technique and the YorkToolkit, which I developed to metrically record details revealed from RTI.
Anyway, it's been quite a lot of fun and has proved useful to Tim's groundbreaking and important research on the Battle of Towton.
So, watch it! It's on InsideOut Yorkshire & Humber on Monday, 6th February, 7:30pm BBC One. And on iPlayer soon after.
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