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More images from the past few years…
Welcome figure of Chief Macquinna’s People at Yuquot National Historic Site, under the Milky Way
Pierre Moquin on ropes during assessment of Beaver River Trestle
Assessment of the Todd Creek Trestle
Interior of Shackleton’s Nimrod hut at Cape Royds
Inside the Beaver River Trestle
Ben uses the UoL magnetometer to perform sub-surface geophysics investigation at Knossos
Typical landscape of the Roman Knossos project, Crete
Roman column drums at the archeaological site of Gournia in Crete
Roman cistern at Aptera, Crete
Tom Linzey makes full-scale templates of the Coney Street frame
Inside the Calgary Cathedral roof during a condition assessment
Ben and Dan Stewart, leader of the Roman Knossos project
Ceramic votive offering observed during survey work at Knossos.
Dan Stewart using GPS to identify Roman masonry at Knossos, Crete
Laying out survey grids at Knossoss, Crete for geophysical investigation
Detail of the Coney Street templates
One of the searchlights during an early trip to Yorke Island
Nigel Copsey performs masonry evaluation for St Luke’s in Red Deer
Engineer abroad! Melissa Kindratsky joins us in York UK
Craig and Gord during frame dismantling work at York
The templates reassembled back in Canada
Detail of carpenters’ marks
Charley Brentall scheming up new applications for the Kuka robot at Hooke Park, UK
Field crew ready to depart Cole Island
Craig Goodman helps us reveal the Coney Street frame at York
Denise Cook inspects No 1 Gun at Yorke Island
Ben prepares to capture some drone footage of the Gun Emplacements at Yorke Island
Medieval carpenters’ marks at Coney Street in York
Leif Roebuck receives a 56ft traveller beam from the Navy at Cole Island 
Todd Creek Trestle inspection
Ben with his GoPro documenting a day with volunteers at Cole Island
Fabrice Lallemand dismantles beams during the documentation of the Harris Barn
Shell Stores at Cole Island
Ben teaches traditional hot-mixing with lime at Uvic CHRM course
Ben and ‘the medieval end-grain harpoon’ at York, UK
Ben documenting and dismantling a medieval frame at York, UK
Gord teaching wood biology at Heritage BC conference
Graham Oglend uses GPS survey equipment at Kinsol Trestle
Ben uses resistography to determine the strength of fire damaged bridge pilings
Fire damage assessment is grubby work!
Heritage Mason Nigel Copsey repointing at Cole Island
Tabular berg passes Shackleton’s Nimrod Hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica
Teaching traditional craft skills with the Timber Framers’ Guild in Suriname
UVic’s Heritage Field School at Cole Island
Assessment of the Centennial Pole
Condition assessment of totem pole
Gord performing an assessment of Mungo Martin’s Centennial Pole
Inspecting wall logs at the QMS Chapel to inform repair work
The ‘Wardroom Table’ at Scott’s hut Cape Evans, Antarctica
Gord working inside Scott’s Terra Nova hut, Antarctica
Making repairs to medieval frame in York, UK

Using resistograph to inspect 60ft cedar purlins at Museum of Anthropology
Scott’s Hut at Cape Evans after a storm
Emergency stabilization of the Mungo Martin’s Centennial Pole
Shell stores on Cole Island where Gord & Ben run the heritage Field School for UVic
‘Scott’s Cubicle’, Cape Evans, Antarctica
Shackletons Nimrod Hut at Cape Royds
Gene Wixon receiving supplies at Cape Evans, Antarctica
The original Kinsol Trestle survey team
Project architect (New Zealand legend!) Pip Cheshire at Cape Evans, Antarctica
Bill West ‘on the ropes’ during bridge inspection
Roped access inspection of Beaver River Trestle
Ross Sea traverse: moving equipment over the frozen sea ice, Antarctica
Inside Bill Reid’s ‘Haida House’ at the MOA
Complex historic masonry at Cole Island 
Accommodation at Cape Evans, Antarctica
Charley Brentnall documents a ‘Stevenson’s Met. Screen’ at Cape Royds, Antarctica