Ardboe, Co. Tyrone · Culture & Heritage
Ardboe High Cross
High-resolution 3D laser scanning of a listed 10th-century monument — captured as a colourised point cloud, accurate to ±2mm, for digital archiving and condition record.
The Ardboe High Cross is one of the most significant early-medieval monuments in Ulster — a 10th-century sandstone cross, carved with biblical scenes, that has stood on the western shore of Lough Neagh for over a thousand years. OD3 captured it with a Trimble X7 laser scanner, recording the cross and its churchyard setting as a dense, colourised point cloud accurate to ±2mm.
Why scan a monument
Heritage fabric does not get a second chance. A laser scan is a permanent, measurable record of the structure exactly as it stands today — every carving, fracture and lean preserved to the millimetre, without anything touching the stone. From a single non-contact capture the data can drive condition monitoring, conservation planning, replica fabrication, or simply a digital archive that outlives the original.
From point cloud to archive
Registered in Trimble RealWorks, the scan becomes a true-to-life 3D model that can be measured, sectioned and revisited at any time. It is the same reality-capture workflow OD3 uses to open the digital thread on live construction sites — here applied to a piece of national heritage.
Outcome
A permanent, millimetre-accurate digital record of a listed monument — available for conservation, study and archive without ever touching the stone.
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