Project

Mapping buried remains of Roman urban and rural domestic architecture using multi-offset ground-penetrating radar

Code
3E018413
Duration
01 October 2013 → 25 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Geophysics
    • Physical geography and environmental geoscience
    • Other earth sciences
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology
    • Theory and methodology of archaeology
    • Other history and archaeology
  • Engineering and technology
    • Modelling
    • Biological system engineering
    • Signal processing
    • Geomatic engineering
Keywords
Multi-offset data acquisition archaeological geophysics Ground-penetrating radar Roman domestic architecture archaeological prospection Geographic and map based Quantitative Surveys Field research Late Antiquity Middle Ages Antiquity Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age) Belgium Geophysical prospection Western Europe Southern Europe Archaeology
 
Project description

In this project, we will further develop multi-offset ground-penetrating radar, where different distances (offsets) between transmitter and receiver are used for data acquisition. When applied on a large enough scale, this should produce clearer horizontal slices of the soil. This technique will be used in archaeological contexts: Roman houses and farmsteads in Mariana (Corsica) and the Potenza Valley (Marche, Italy).