Swann Night Hawk Wireless Camera

We received the first part of the CCTV equipment we want to use on the dig site.

Part of the VERA project is to have some video equipment on site to monitor and record what is going on. Unfortunately due to the way we have to buy things at Uni it has taken weeks to get the kit ordered. The first part Lucy kindly bought for us from the Maplins website because the Uni supplier could not get hold of any. The rest of the kit will be ordered after the School end of financial year ‘purchase freeze', we will then have to wait a further 10 days while the kit comes from the upstream supplier.

What this means is that by the time everything is here the dig season will be over (it only runs 6 weeks per year). We will likely deploy the kit outside in someones garden to allow us to trial the solar power system we want to build and prove that the whole thing is weather proof. This means it will definitely be working for next years dig but it sucks that we missed out on this year. Unfortunately there is not much you can do speed these things up within an organization like a UK Uni.