4th September 2013, 05:02 PM
Did a job a couple of years ago on a scheduled site which EH had previously commissioned magnetometry and resistivity surveys on, neither of which seemed to have shown much. We did some of what was effectively strip-map-and-record, with minimal excavation, and then had some GPR done. In combination with having got a bit of a handle on the very complicated topography of the site, it turned out that the earlier mag and resi surveys had, in fact, recorded loads of archaeology in their own different ways, it just took the GPR, topo and a bit of digging to make sense of it all (after I'd got my head around all the different datasets)
...but I agree, geofizz can't characterise the archaeology of a site, however good it is, merely provides some hints - it's usually c**p at finding stuff like hundreds of bodies or Neolithic pits for a start
...but I agree, geofizz can't characterise the archaeology of a site, however good it is, merely provides some hints - it's usually c**p at finding stuff like hundreds of bodies or Neolithic pits for a start