

Shadow Tor Studios
Multimedia studio, based in Cornwall. Video Games, Events, 3D Visualisations, Digital Archaeology, Interactive Presentations, Reconstructions, Photography, Photogrammetry.
Shadow Tor provides a range of multimedia services.
Immersive narrative driven game entertainment or edutainment, featuring digital editions of real world places and objects. Utilising folklore and developing storylines through user engagement, puzzles and game-play.
Capturing objects and locations as digital 3D models, archaeology finds, historic monuments or details. 3D modeling dig sites, landscapes or wider environments, digital recording the layer by layer progressive stages of an archaeology dig.
Recreating eras of the past through rendered and real time digital reconstructions of historic buildings, monuments, landscapes and items. Rebuilding sites as they would have looked in the past, or interpreting full items from fragmented remains.
Paranormal and History events: Exploring and touring locations; telling history and folklore through live performance, guides and bespoke films screenings; and paranormal investigations.
Producing engaging presentations for presenting media through interactive material, downloadable or exhibited display programs, exploring touch screen interaction or VR experiences.
Creative visualisations and film renders for exhibitions or documentaries. Virtual camera flythroughs or turntable renderings of digitally captured or created content.
Interested in the darker side of history, ghost stories and folklore? Join us for a range of events, Paranormal Evenings, History Tours and Ghost Hunts. We conduct events throughout the year.
Paranormal Evenings are larger events, involving meals, history tours, screenings of bespoke films, spooky performances and Paranormal Investigations.
Ghost Hunts are smaller investigations, focusing on a location, allowing you time to explore and conduct paranormal experiments and use our equipment yourselves.
Eliza Trewithian haunts the old Wychwood Hollow, a place of myth and legend. The Cornwall Wood Witch has haunted the hollow since her death in 1793, torn apart by the hunting hounds of Trelawney Manor. Does Eliza seek revenge, or just witnesses to remember her story?
Armed with a collection of ghost-hunting gadgets and help from some local Ghost-Hunters, it’s up to you to solve the case. Gather evidence, decipher old documents, follow advice (or don’t!) and experience a very realistic ghost-hunt in full 360 views.
Shadow Tor Studios brings its range of services to the new and returning archaeology TV show, Time Team.
For Time Team, Shadow Tor is creating Photogrammetry 3D models of archaeological finds and features, rendering digital model footage, 3D modeling and animating virtual reconstructions of archaeology artifacts. We are also capturing 360 degree photos, building interactive virtual tours and crafting full historic digital reconstructions of the featured sites.
Photogrammetry
360 and Virtual Tours
Reconstruction
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Reconstruction
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Photogrammetry
A strange encounter at Duloe 'Stone Circle'
It's Beltane, at the Duloe Stone Circle. Explore the ancient standing stones, in full 360 views, and meet Rusty the local cat! But, something is happening in the circle, as Spring turns to Summer. What is behind the strange reports of UFO's and 'lights in the sky' around Cornwall? Is it a power generated by the stones themselves?
Visit the circle yourself to find out..
Cornwall - Sunrise over the Tor; a bright morning for a Bronze Age farmer, 3500 years ago. Historical reconstruction using photogrammetry and low-poly world building and local terrain detail.
Historical reconstruction based upon the hut circles found on Bodmin Moor (still evident today), dating from the middle Bronze Age period. There were large settlements at Stowe's Pound, plus smaller farmers huts, on neighbouring hillsides.
The Bloodmoon has risen. Something is hunting - feral - ancient - terrible.
After the discovery of livestock ripped to shreds, torn apart and devoured, there has now been a murder - a vicious, brutal killing at Bracken Tor, out on the mist shrouded moorland. Is there more to the tales of a Beast Sighting?
You are a bold journalist, always looking for the next 'big story' but will you risk your life for the front page headlines? If so, the ancient rock formation known as Bracken Tor awaits your arrival. The stony outcrop dominates the moor, and boasts several unnerving stories; from unexplainable glowing lights, to this latest horrifying incident.
Are some places cursed or are they haunted by those who went before? Can you survive a night on the mysterious moor?
Somewhere deep within the woods of Cornwall, a timeless force is stirring. Unseen beneath the ancient burial mound, known locally as Barrow Hill, a forgotten myth awakens. Following in the footsteps of the wellknown archaeologist, Conrad Morse, you will discover that the barrow is more than just a collection of forgotten standing stones and Experience the detailed and immersive storyline yourself, in this great point-and-click adventure.
The eerie Cornish landscape is brought to life like never before. Arriving during the Autumn Equinox you have one night to unravel a sinister story. Explore the well trodden pathways across the land, seek clues in almost forgotten shrines and experience the ancient forces which exist in the standing stone monument known as Barrow Hill.
Follow the Dark Path into a world of Druidic lore and Celtic myths. It is the Autumn Equinox on Barrow Hill, a time of great power, when the ancient standing stones are at their most powerful and dangerous. You have one night to make the offerings, follow the Dark Path and escape Barrow Hill.
It is the Autumn Equinox, when day and night are equal, exactly as they were a decade ago. You have returned to the scene of the crime, seeking answers. Could such an event happen again? What trials and offerings await? As you leave the car behind, and step into the dark world of the old woods, you wonder whether you seek the truth, or you are following the Dark Path.
Achaeology meets adventure.
Emma Harry is asking for a favour. It's a BIG ask.
The Wishing Stones in Barrow Woods.
Return to the Barrow Hill Service Station, 10 years on. Perhaps the place remembers you from before.
It's a dark night, your phone is your best ally.
Something is terrorising the simple farming folk, can the fuzz help?
There is a presence, a figure lurking at the old pagan sites.
B.H.R, Barrow Hill Radio, with Emma Harry, broadcasting through the night.
Barrow Farm is an abandoned old farmstead, until The Dark Path find it.
Barrow Quoit, based on a real neolithic burial chamber in Cornwall.
Gus didn't know what he was getting involved in! Then, he said her name. Never say her name!
The old service station is falling to bits, the woods are reclaiming their world.
A lonesome voice in the night, DJ Emma Harry gets a few very weird late night phone-ins.
The old CCTV is still working, helpful for guiding young Olly out of danger.
A proper Cornish Tourist Attraction,there's swings and a death trap and everything!
The Future Is The Past
Join the archaeology adventure in a world of Time Team Games.
Time travel from your own home as you discover and resurrect the past. Investigate alongside Time Team experts, uncovering archaeology msteries and piecing together clues.
Time Team Games allows you to join a dig through an interactive and guided archaeology investigation experience.
Tintagel Castle Archaeology Research Project TCARP. Shadow Tor Studios teamed up with Cornwall Archaeology Unit to digitaly capture and record the excavations and finds at Tintagel Castle for English Heritage and BBC's Digging for Britain.
Excavations revealed the outlines of buildings, and provided evidence of far-flung connections. Sherds of amphorae (storage jars), pieces of fine plates and bowls and fragments of decorated glass vessels show that the people living there were trading with the Mediterranean world. More of this sort of material has been found at Tintagel than any other site in Britain - this was a high-status settlement, possibly seasonally occupied by regional leaders or kings of Dumnonia.
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Excavating on the southern terrace.
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Looking North from the mainland to Tintagel Castle on the headland.
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Tintagel is a protected heritage site where all work must be carried out sensitively.
Taking measurements from the 2016 Trench Mark on the Sothern Terrace.
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Excavations in 2017 reveal more ruined walls and surviving floor surfaces.
Filming the Dig Diary, a video recording of the 2016 excavation.
Midden deposits reveal a wealth of detail, such as the remains of a pig jaw, bones and pottery fragments.
The 2017 trench encompasses a much wider area of the Southern Terrace, revealing building walls and revetments, doorways and paved surfaces.
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Paved surfaces lead to a series of steps descending the hillside.
The coast path leads along rugged cliffs tops of the North coast of Cornwall.
A geo-archaeological project focusing on the early Bronze Age site of the Hurlers Stone Circles, near the village of Minions, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. A geological survey of the moor's granite resources aimed to identify the sources of granite which the standing stones of the Hurlers Stone Circles were hewn from.
An archaeological excavation with Cornwall Archaeology Unit, looked at a new site a potential 'fourth' Circle. Further survey work also identified and recorded Stone Row alignments crossing the moorland.
Shadow Tor Studios provided media coverage during the project, including the 3D trench scanning during the archaeological excavation.
The geological survey area.
Placing the geo-node positions for digital visitors on Google Earth.
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Processing the trench 3D scans.
Taking measurements during the archaeological dig.
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Plotting the placement of the stones in trenches.
Photographing the ongoing project and precipitants on Bodmin Moor.
Recording positions of Stone Row alignments on Bodmin Moor.
Magnetometry surveys on Bodmin Moor.
The granite stones of the Hurlers Central Circle.
Gathering on the open moorlands before surveying.
A geological survey of the Hurlers stone circle.
The ancient Hurlers Standing Stones site beside ruins from the Cornish Mining industry.
An archaeology excavation project at The Hurlers on Bodmin Moor.
It was a good opportunity to 3D map some of the standing stones (The Hurlers) which make up the impressive Stone Circles at Minions.
Learning about life in the Bronze Age and visiting the remains of the roundhouses where the builders of the Hurlers may have lived, as well as Rillaton Barrow, former home of the famous gold cup. Myths and Legends, Astronomy and Archaeology workshops were enjoyed by many throughout the week along with a series of guided walks, flint knapping, small finds and woad dyeing workshops.
The project re-excavated a unique pavement excavated initially in the 1930s, and under threat from erosion. During the excavation a Bronze Age cutting tool was found as well as other flakes of flint.
The Roseland Observatory was on site all week leading workshops and surveying the landscape and astronomical alignments.
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Join the all-night ghost vigil at Harwood House. As part of the 'OPG' paranormal team, explore the haunted buildings and investigate sightings of ghosts, long reported around the area of Wolfenden. Grab the ghost hunting gadgets and solve the mystery surrounding this abandoned building.
Harwood House is now empty as it has been for 4 decades, but you can be the eyes in the dark... watching... waiting. Discover what happened.
You have been sent to investigate 'strange phenomena' at Wick Hollow Hall. The house and grounds have been recently restored, with hopes to open to the public. But, there have been 'incidents'. People have been hurt, strange elemental beings have been witnessed in the sedge marshes, churchyard and country lanes. Time slips, ghosts, visitation from 'angels'. Can the witness statements be true? Fairies? Fire spirits? The ghost of Elizabeth I?! Hundreds of thousands of people visit the legendary town and Tor each year, looking to experience the 'magic' that surrounds the famous Tor and ruins. But, is there a real reason the Tor exudes power?
Features:
A complete house, gardens and grounds to explore!
Realistic weather, day/night cycles and wild, random events.
Monitor scientific equipment, to record 'strange phenomena'.
Science vs. The Paranormal - tackle puzzles your way..
Use dowsing rods, crystals, E.S.P and other 'out there' practises.
Trace ley lines; pinpoint hot spots and conjunction points.
A Full cast of actors, from various times and predicaments.
Esoteric original soundtrack, with songs composed for the story.
Lots of puzzles!
Created by Darkling Room and Shadow Tor Studios.
Real 3D objects and statuery scanned in the real Glastonbury.
Sounds and textures from the mysterious 'Somerset Levels'.
A mile from Glastonbury, the fields and pastures of Wick Hollow await.
Wick Hollow Hall was built beside an ancient Stone Circle for a reason...
Glastonbury Tor stands over the landscape. Simple pasture or pagan playground? It'll be up to you!
Wick Hollow Hall; a house that was never a home, hides many a mystery.
Surrounding Wick Hollow, carved stones provide clues to a forgotten history.
Glastonbury is a green space, please take any virtual rubbish with you.
Time for refreshment at the disserted tourist attraction
Harness, balance and utilise the natural world around Glastonbury Tor
Avalon is not a mythical place. It's real
The Wick Hollow Hall Estate offers several acres, from arable fields, the church of St Dunstan and the Myrddin Stone Circle
Explore forgotten corners of Wick Hollow Hall
Glastonbury certainly feels like the sort of place something profound may be concealed