A LiDAR landscape of the key archaeological features around Stonehenge including Stonehenge itself, The Avenue, the Cursus and numerous barrow burial mounds. The 1 metre LiDAR is only partial at Stonehenge with many of the sites to the west not included in the current opendata coverage. This is a digital terrain model version which represents the bare ground surface only so prominent buildings, trees and even the stones of the Stonehenge circles are stripped off in this case. 

Created using 1 metre DTM LiDAR opendata provided by the Environment Agency. Built in QGIS using the QGIS2threeJS plugin.

Thanks to Mike Gill of the Avon Valley Archaeological Society for the python code which converts QGIS models into a format compatible with Sketchfab.

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Stonehenge LiDAR Archaeology Landscape

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another sand/rock interface -- a 3rd closer look into here -> https://skfb.ly/6MVKG

more info may be available here: “Light-Toned Rock” https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_020946_1450

This signal was analyzed by Organic.

Tools used: gdal, qgis, houdini

https://www.instagram.com/organiccomputer/

020946_1450_zoom_location_003_mars_hirise

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another overview mesh for another candidate area on our desert neighbor...

more info may be available here:
"Light-Toned Layered Deposits at Contact between Ladon Valles and Basin"
https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_032864_1595

This signal was analyzed by Organic.

Tools used: gdal, qgis, houdini

https://www.instagram.com/organiccomputer/

032864_1595_overview_mars_hirise

100 sqkm 3D lidar (dsm) landscape around the River Rede NW of Otterburn in Northumberland.

Amazing archaeology including: numerous prehistoric hillforts, settlements and field systems, two Roman roads, Roman temporary camps and forts, Medieval and later abandoned villages, fields, and much much more.

[Location](https://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=55.256691&lon=-2.225640&lz=13&rz=13&lt=OS&rt=satellite&lov=None&rov=None)

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x1.5.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Redesdale, Northumberland - 3D Lidar Landscape

Valley of River Tyne between Riding Mill & Ovingham, Northumberland.

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x1.5.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Tyne Valley lidar landscape

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Barcombe Hill above Vindolanda

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DTM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x2.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Castle Dykes (motte & bailey), Northamptonshire

The Priddy Circles are probably Neolithic ritual or ceremonial monuments similar to a henge but this interpretation is somewhat speculative due to the presence of external rather than internal ditches.

Somerset HER: [24042](https://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/24042), [24046](https://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/24046)

Scheduled Monuments: [1015501](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1015501), [1015498](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1015498)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priddy_Circles

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x1.5.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Priddy Circles & Barrows, Somerset, UK

See also on Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/pHZYT and https://skfb.ly/pBACy

Atlas of Hillforts: [EN0007](https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/EN0007.html) 

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DTM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x1.5.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Capler Camp hillfort, Wye Valley, Herefordshire

A 3D landscape created from lidar of almost 100sqkm of Northumberland centred on the small village of Colwell showing the straight lines of the A68 main road on the course of the Roman road, Dere Street.


3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x1.5.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

A68 (Dere Street) - 3D lidar landscape

A 3D view Nepal terrain with major river network.. created in QGIS/WebGL.

A 3D Terrain - Nepal

Cockfield Fell, County Durham.

[https://heddonhistory.weebly.com/blog/cockfield-fell-co-durham](https://heddonhistory.weebly.com/blog/cockfield-fell-co-durham)



3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Cockfield Fell - 3D LiDAR landscape

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x1.5.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Cerne Abbas - lidar landscape

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Overlaid with satellite imagery from bing (2026).

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

Greenlee 3D landscape (bing satellite imagery)

The Sill & Greenlee (3D Landscape) - aerial

The Sill & Greenlee 3D landscape (lidar)

3D model from enhanced LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Vertical exaggeration x2.

Enhancement of the LIDAR was carried out using tools made available in the QGIS plugin, Relief Visualization Toolbox. Kokalj, Žiga & Hesse, Ralf. (2017). Airborne laser scanning raster data visualization: A Guide to Good Practice.

3D landscape model made using the QGIS2threejs plugin for QGIS.

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