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Geophysical Survey at Buriton Pipeline Scheme |
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Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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The cart-based gradiometer system used a Carlson RTK GNSS instrument, which receives corrections from a network of reference stations operated by the OS. Such instruments allow positions to be determined with a precision of 0.02 m in real-time and therefore exceeds European Archaeologiae Consilium recommendations (Schmidt et al. 2015). Data were collected with an effective sensitivity of ±8 µT over ±1000 nT range at a rate of 100 Hz, producing intervals of 0.02 m along transects spaced 4 m apart. The detailed gradiometer survey has not identified any anomalies that are thought to be archaeological in nature. There are however anomalies related to the agricultural use of the site during the post-medieval period. Several former mapped field boundaries have been detected which are recorded in the OS first edition (1869) and second edition (1895) mapping and have subsequently been removed. The wider area has been used agriculturally from at least the Iron Age, with an intensification of farming practices in the immediate area during the medieval period. The former field boundaries may therefore originate from a period earlier than the post-medieval. Variations in the underlying deposits have been detected in the centre of the site, where the underlying geology changes to mudstone. The remaining identified features were agricultural and likely modern in origin including drains, ploughing trends, magnetic trends and magnetic disturbance. |
Author: |
Lydia Jones
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Wessex Archaeology
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2023
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Petersfield |
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England |
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Hampshire |
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East Hampshire |
Grid Reference: 476800, 122947 (Easting, Northing)
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wessexar1-514687 |
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18 Dec 2023 |