Several major buildings within the North Ridge survey
area should be classified either as 'palaces' or as
similar 'elite' buildings. The ground plan of one such
building, which had never been previously mapped or
drawn, bears marked similarities in layout to the buildings
within the area known as the Noblemen's Quarter - an
'elite' district.
The work in the Noblemen's Quarter, like that on the
North Ridge utilizes the 'non-invasive' techniques.
The aim of these techniques are to map and to register,
by means of physically 'non-intrusive' practices, the
extensive building and habitation remains that are currently
visible.
This is accomplished utilizing a combination of state
of the art surveying and data collection techniques,
digital photography, and digital video. The focus in
this area is to document and to model, by means of
three-dimensional
surveying techniques, a series of buildings that have
been fully excavated and conserved by the Archaeological
Survey of India (ASI) and by the Karnataka Department
of Archaeology and Museums (KDAM).
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