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As regards the right part of the pseudosections it is worth noting 
the lack of resistivity anomalies which could be connected to 
the presence of a further stone covering delimiting the other side 
of the supposed ditch. This outcome made the archaeologists 
conclude that the ditch was strengthened only on the side close 
to the boundary wall. In fact the possibility that the ditch could 
be longer than 18m and therefore its external wall located 
outside the surveyed area is considered to be extremely 
unlikely. 
4. CONCLUSIONS 
The geophysical surveys have successfully provided important 
information to the archaeological research in four different 
situations. Summarizing the obtained results it is worth pointing 
out schematically the following aspects: 
• all the highlighted anomalies had a full archaeological 
feedback 
• both the position and the shape of the signals have 
shown a good correspondence to those of the sources 
• the structures brought to the light by the excavations 
are mostly made of calcareous material and were 
hosted by a clayey soil 
• environmental noises of various origins were present 
particularly regarding the magnetic surveys 
Definitely, geophysical surveys both magnetic and electric has 
proven to be quite an effective tool in locating buried 
archaeological structures and guiding excavations with a great 
saving of money and time. 
The often unlikely environmental conditions and the presence of 
weak sources of signal (calcareous material could be considered 
almost inert by the magnetic point of view) affected negatively 
the survey. Nevertheless using proper field procedures to collect 
data and good processing techniques it is possible to obtain the 
maximum content of information. Finally high resolution 
magnetic and electric images are fundamental in order to 
recognize the structures even from the shape of their anomalies. 
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6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The authors wish express their gratitude to the archaeologists 
Sebastiana Lagona, Giuliano Volpe, Angela Ciancio and 
Alberto Cazzella for fruitful discussion and cooperation. The 
study was supported financially by MIUR Cofin 99 and 
University of Bari EF 01/02. We wish gratefully acknowledge 
the text review by Betta Pesole.