The Restoration of the Betty’s Hope North Windmill, Antigua, West Indies

2020 ◽  
pp. 227-235
Author(s):  
Reginald Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Wood Beams ◽  
Restoration Work ◽  
Roller System ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Chapter 14 investigates the archaeology, technology, and restoration of the Betty’s Hope north windmill. Archaeological excavations and restoration work were conducted from 1988 to 1995. Today, 90 stone towers are all that remain of the windmills scattered across Antigua’s landscape. This project initiated archaeological research at Betty’s Hope as well as cultural heritage management of the site. As one of the largest and most lucrative estates on Antigua, Betty’s Hope could afford two windmills to crush the sugar cane by harnessing wind power and utilizing the horizontal three-roller system. The mid-nineteenth century witnessed the conversion to steam-powered at Betty’s Hope. Restoration efforts included replacing parts of the original stone floor, old hard wood beams, masonry, cap house, arms, and machinery.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN RESTORATION WORK MANAGEMENT IN CULTURAL HERITAGE. THE CASE OF THE CHURCHES OF SAN MANUEL COLOHETE AND SAN SEBASTIÁN (HONDURAS)

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 615-622
Author(s):  
A. Ferrando Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Civil Infrastructures ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Restoration Work ◽  
Work Management

Abstract. The restoration work management in cultural heritage presents lots of difficulties according to the context where it takes place. Some of them are the precarious communication network and civil infrastructures, the absence of specialised local labour or sensitized with cultural heritage whom work with or the need to import suitable materials to develop the project correctly. In the case that arises, the churches of San Manuel de Colohete and San Sebastian (Honduras) converge, among others, all of these difficulties involve the heritage management directly. Besides, the planned work budget is usually reduced and needs the implication of all the actors involved in the project. Therefore, the objective of this work is to identify the difficulties around the development of these restoration works and possible solutions that allow them to achieve the purpose planned. The methodology applied for this article is based on the practical experience and the comparative analysis of cases in similar situations. All of it, in a broad context of citizen participation, in international cooperation actions which takes place in remote and inhospitable geographical areas, where any action is complex. The results refer to the way to solve problems that arise and to the solutions, sometimes creative, which finally make possible the cultural heritage restoration.

The Heights of Slaves in Trinidad

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald C. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Slave Rebellion

Early nineteenth-century Trinidad was one of the most efficient sugar producers in the British West Indies with output per slave three times as high as in Barbados and 70% higher than in Jamaica (Ward, 1978; Ragatz, 1963:332). Slave prices reflected Trinidad’s greater productivity. The Commissioners of Compensation reported in 1837 that between 1822 and 1830 the price of a Trinidad field hand was 64% greater than the price of one in Jamaica (Great Britain Parliamentary Papers, 1837–1838).Despite Trinidad’s natural advantages as a sugar producer, the island’s first sugar estate was established only in 1787. Spain controlled Trinidad until the British conquest in 1797 and prohibited non-Spanish settlement until 1783. The island’s population in 1783 consisted of only some one thousand Amerindians and an equal number of inhabitants of European or African descent who grew cocoa as well as subsistence crops. Rapid population growth began in 1783 when the Spanish opened the island to settlement by any Roman Catholic. French West Indian slave owners in particular took advantage of this opportunity to settle a nearly unpopulated island and brought the cultivation of sugar cane and coffee to Trinidad. The slave rebellion in Haiti sparked a still larger inflow of French planters and their slaves, and brought the slave population to over 10,000 in 1797 (Fraser, 1891; Carmichael, 1961; Anthony, 1975).

scholarly journals An emotions-informed approach for digital documentation of rural heritage landscapes: Baojiatun, a traditional tunpu village in Guizhou, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane-Heloise Nancarrow ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Jing Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Emotional Value ◽  
Digital Survey

AbstractThe application of digital technologies has greatly improved the efficiency of cultural heritage documentation and the diversity of heritage information. Yet the adequate incorporation of cultural, intangible, sensory or experimental elements of local heritage in the process of digital documentation, and the deepening of local community engagement, remain important issues in cultural heritage research. This paper examines the heritage landscape of tunpu people within the context of digital conservation efforts in China and the emergence of emotions studies as an evaluative tool. Using a range of data from the Ming-era village of Baojiatun in Guizhou Province, this paper tests an exploratory emotions-based approach and methodology, revealing shifting interpersonal relationships, experiential and praxiological engagement with the landscape, and emotional registers within tunpu culture and heritage management. The analysis articulates distinctive asset of emotional value at various scales and suggests that such approaches, applied within digital documentation contexts, can help researchers to identify multi-level heritage landscape values and their carriers. This methodology can provide more complete and dynamic inventories to guide digital survey and representation; and the emotions-based approach also supports the integration of disparate heritage aspects in a holistic understanding of the living landscape. Finally, the incorporation of community participation in the process of digital survey breaks down boundaries between experts and communities and leads to more culturally appropriate heritage records and representations.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Assessment and Monitoring: The Case Study of Alba Iulia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Moise ◽  
Iulia Dana Negula ◽  
Cristina Elena Mihalache ◽  
Andi Mihai Lazar ◽  
Andreea Luminita Dedulescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Assessment And Monitoring ◽  
Historical Past

In recent times, satellite-based remote sensing has a growing role in archaeology and inherently in the cultural heritage management process. This paper demonstrates the potential and usefulness of satellite imagery for the documentation, mapping, monitoring, and in-depth analysis of cultural heritage and the archaeological sites located in urban landscapes. The study focuses on the assessment and monitoring of Alba Iulia, which is one of the Romanian cities with the richest historical past. Multitemporal analysis was performed to identify the land use/land cover changes that might contribute to an increased cultural heritage vulnerability to natural disasters. A special emphasis was dedicated to the assessment of the built-up area growth and consequently of the urbanization trend over a large time interval (30 years). Next, the urbanization and urban area expansion impact was further analyzed by concentrating on the urban heat island within Alba Iulia city and Alba Iulia Fortress (located in the center of the city). As temperature change represents a key element of climate change, the temperature trend within the same temporal framework and its impact on cultural heritage were determined. In the end, with regard to the cultural heritage condition assessment, the research was complemented with an assessment of the urban ground and individual building stability, using persistent scatterer interferometry. The results contribute to the detailed depiction of the cultural heritage site in such a manner that the site is monitored over an extensive timeframe, its current state of conservation is accurately determined, and the future trends can be identified. In conclusion, the present study offers reliable results regarding the main factors that might endanger the cultural heritage site as a basis for future preservation measures.

scholarly journals THE CULTURAL HERITAGE SPATIAL DATA SET OF KLAIPĖDA OLD TOWN / SAUGOMŲ KLAIPĖDOS SENAMIESČIO OBJEKTŲ ERDVINIŲ DUOMENŲ RINKINYS / НАБОР ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННЫХ ДАННЫХ ОХРАНЯЕМЫХ ОБЪЕКТОВ СТАРОГО ГОРОДА КЛАЙПЕДЫ

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-176
Author(s):  
Lina Kuklienė ◽  
Dainora Jankauskienė ◽  
Indrius Kuklys
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Input Devices ◽  
Relevant Point ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the main geodetic databases of Lithuania and to create a geodetic database of cultural heritage objects in Klaipėda using program ArcGIS 9.3. The problem is that the geodetic database storing graphical and attributive information about cultural heritage in Klaipeda city has not been created yet. Thus, in order to incorporate GIS technologies into the management of cultural heritage, starting the creation of such a database seems to be a relevant point. The fully completed and regularly updated geodetic database can be used for cultural heritage management, planning, design, road construction, etc. Therefore, the following objectives have been set: 1) describing geo-data collection and input devices; 2) stimulating the geodetic database that introduces information about buildings, building complexes, cemeteries, locations of archaeological and cultural heritage; 3) giving a detailed description of the database creation process; 4) analyzing the need for establishing a geodetic database of cultural heritage objects in Klaipėda. Santrauka Lietuvoje GIS pagrindu sukurta daug įvairiems tikslams skirtų georeferencinių bei teminių erdvinių duomenų rinkinių. Viena iš šių rinkinių panaudojimo sričių – valstybės registruose esančių duomenų kaupimas. Tokiu principu yra sukurta Kultūros vertybių registro duomenų bazė, kurios pagrindiniai duomenys buvo panaudoti kuriant Klaipėdos miesto kultūros paveldo objektų erdvinių duomenų rinkinį. Siekiant kuo operatyviau įtraukti GIS technologijas į kultūros paveldo objektų tvarkybą, aktualu Klaipėdoje pradėti kurti kultūros paveldo objektų erdvinių duomenų rinkinį. Nuolat atnaujinamas erdvinių duomenų rinkinys palengvins įvairių sričių specialistų atliekamus kultūros paveldo objektų administravimo, teritorijų planavimo, projektavimo, kelių tiesimo ir kitus darbus. Резюме В Литве на основе ГИС для различных целей создано множество гео-ссылок, а также тематических наборов пространственных данных. Область использования одного из множеств – сбор данных, имеющихся в государственном учете. По такому принципу создана регистрационная база культурных ценностей, основные данные которой были использованы при создании набора пространственных данных объектов культурного наследия города Клайпеды. С целью оперативно обеспечить управление объектами культурного наследия технологиями ГИС следует начать создание набора пространственных данных объектов культурного наследия в Клайпеде. Полностью заполненный и постоянно обновляемый набор пространственных данных облегчит работу специалистов в различных областях: администрировании объектов культурного наследия, планировании территорий, проектировании, строительстве дорог и других.

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