21st January 2014, 07:52 PM
P Prentice Wrote:it would help if he asked the right questions - such as perhaps- has anybody got any data regarding the methodical survey of metal finds in topsoil/ploughzone removed from archaeological sites?
Mostly hasn't been dug (one bit's being MDed by archaeologists now during stripping, as it happens), but see the Catterick Metal Detector Project in YAJ a few years back, has been massively evaluated over the years and serious geophysics etc, am sure there are other examples