[WGNC] geophysical survey of catacombs

Magnus Hagdorn magnus.hagdorn at marsupium.org
Thu Jan 19 11:52:29 UTC 2017


Dear Tony,
yes, that sounds great. I will have a word with Hugh to see what he 
thinks. I guess there is no great urgency just now, but we should not 
let it slip.

Magnus


On 19/01/17 11:49, Tony Harris wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> That is very encouraging news, for which many thanks.  I understand about
> the academic year and I guess the catacombs anyway are now into a longer
> term project.   All this will need careful liaison with the CEC Parks,
> Greenspace and Cemeteries Service (and their consultants) which I am happy
> to be involved with having kicked this off with them last year. An
> exploratory recce this summer sounds a good idea also in liaison with the
> CEC guys.   Before doing this What might be best would be to meet your
> colleague at the cemetery when we can explain what we know already and
> maybe scope out what the recce might look at so we can then jointly let
> CEC know.  What do you think?  Happy to meet on a date and time to suit
> your colleague.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 19/01/2017, 09:37, "Magnus Hagdorn" <magnus.hagdorn at marsupium.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I just had a chat with a colleague of mine who is responsible for
>> geophysics student projects. He was well excited by the idea to do a
>> geophysical survey of the catacombs. In fact, he suggest to hit it with
>> everything we have: ground penetrating radar, gravity, geo-resistivity,
>> etc. It's too late for this academic year, but it would be interesting
>> for next academic year, ie after the summer. He also suggested to have
>> an exploratory survey during the summer to see what can be seen.
>>
>> Regards
>> magnus
>>
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