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Megalithics is brought to you by Maggie and Keith Davison (aka The Ragged Rascals).

Our website content reflects our own fascination with megalithic monuments and the folk who built them. We hope that over the years, our site may have inspired interest in these monuments, and perhaps, motivated a few bods to get out there in the wildy bits and visit these magical places.

We first put this site up on the web in 1999 and it has been freely available continuously since then. Net access in those days was via snail-slow dialup modem onto huge CRT "goggle box" monitors. Usable digital photography was a dream then, so everything had to be shot on film and then scanned for web use.

We have tried to improve our recording methods and equipment over the years, and to keep abreast of useful innovations. We hope this has gradually improved the quality and scope of our content. The biggest innovation was probably the development of VR panoramic photography and the software that allowed this to be viewed on the net. With VR panoramas, for the first time people could get a real feeling of "being there", so we have used this technique heavily from its earliest incarnations.

We are both getting on a bit now, so we no longer do field work, but we do have an extensive film/file archive backlog. At present, we have about five times the present website contents still to process, so we have plenty to keep us busy ;O) We hope you enjoy our website and if you have any questions, or suggestions, please get in touch.

Maggie & Keith

Contact the Rascals: megalithics@blueyonder.co.uk

 

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