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Title
New perspectives to save cultural heritage
Author
Altan, M. Orhan

CIPA 2003 XIX 11 ' International Symposium, 30 September — 04 October, 2003, Antalya, Turkey
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stone made coverings separated by a filling of earth.
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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.
5. REFERENCES
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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.