5th September 2013, 08:45 AM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Combinations of equipment allowing a 'one-pass' assessment of an area with various data sets being produced would seem to be the way forward. Whether anyone in commercial archaeology is willing to fork out for the combination equipment though is another matter. Geofizz is probably the one area of archaeology that has the fewest cross-overs with other disciplines....there aint much else you can do with the equipment other than archaeology and using it to keep doors open.....
I believe caesium magnetometers were developed for detecting tanks? [from aircraft, admittedly] GPR seems to turn up a lot on CSI (just before they clean the stiff in 2mins using a pointy shovel...)And I thought GSB used to do stuff for the coal board? Plenty of applications. Am sure GPR in particular has numerous applications, would have headed off many incidents of contractors machining through major services...
From my experience, combinations of different geofizz techniques certainly work well on the right site, but wouldn't be practical in most large-area evals where there's a limited budget, so think we'll have to make do with 100s of ha of magnetometry for now, cheap and cheerful