13th September 2013, 06:03 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:The landowners seem to have made a killing from the wheat harvest this year. They are now busy sub soiling and then drilling with some of the biggest shiniest tractors that I have seen for a long time. and they are all on the cap for the next five years....
Just wondered if gephis could pick out the damage done to your archaeological resource by sub-soiling?
Potentially. You can sometimes see if features have been truncated by ploughing in geophysics data. But obviously the better and more reliable way to do this would be to carry out a geophysical survey and then target the trenching to cover anomalies / features of interest. I'm not advocating the sole use of geophysics. Just better surveys to inform the follow up work.
Would your random trench that happens not to hit any of the archaeological resource provide the required information?