Theregularapplication ofgeophysical, geochemicaland topographicalsurvey techniquesto evaluate archaeologicalsitesiswellestablished as a method forlocating, definingandmappingburied archaeological materials. However, it is not always feasible to apply a range of different methods over a particular site or landscape due to constraints in time or funding.This paper addresses the integrated application ofavarietyof survey techniques overdifferent sitesandlandscapesin Italyandelsewhere, focusing on the recent results from the ongoing survey and excavations at Portus, the port of Imperial Rome. An integration of methods, including magnetometry, resistance survey, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) has been used at the site to fulfil a number of different research objectives. Results of the magnetometer survey have successfully recorded the nature and extent of archaeological material over an area of 220 ha, allowing a plan of the port andrelated structuresto beproducedandvariationsin archaeologicalpotentialacrossthe entirelandscape to be assessed.The integration of several techniques in one area of the site between the Porto di Claudio and the Porto di Traiano has mapped the structural remains of this area of the port prior to and during investigation of the zone through excavation. Current work on the geophysical survey data, using different software programs for the processing of survey data and merging different datasetsusinggeographicalinformation systempackages, hasallowed theresultsofthework to bevisualized and presented to archaeologists in a comprehensive and unambiguous fashion, facilitating the future management and preservation ofthe site.In addition ongoingresearchis using different statisticalandvisualmethodsofintegrationtorefinethearchaeologicalinterpretationofthe studyarea.Copyright #

Resistivity imaging was carried out on four large Roman barrows at Bartlow in Cambridgeshire.The geophysical survey formed part of a wider research project designed to record and assess the landscape context of the largest surviving Roman burial mounds in Britain. The barrows today range in height from 6.6 m to13.2 m and their steep profile posed particular practicalandmodelling challenges. Data were obtained using a Campus Geopulse resistance meter with up to 50 electrodes spaced at 1m intervals and lines up to 76 m long. A total of 24 lines was obtained.Topographic corrections were applied tothepseudosections, whichwereinvertedusing Res2Dinvand Res3Dinv.Resistivityimaging was particularly successfulin identifying evidence for the antiquarian explorations of the site.Central collapse features or in-filled tunnels image as high resistance features in all barrows and in one (Barrow IV) there is also a low resistance feature in the approximate position ofa known antiquarian tunnel. Barrow VI had a thick covering of high-resistivity that may relate to nineteenth century landscaping and reconstruction of this monument. Resistivity imaging also revealed possible evidence for ancient revetments in all four large barrows.

Sommarii:L'articolo presenta i risultati di nuove ricognizioni geofisiche nell'area esterna, immediatamente a nord del circuito murario di Falerii Novi. I risultati, integrati con recenti pubblicazioni su evidenze da fotografia aerea, chiariscono ulteriormente la sequenza dello sviluppo della città dalla sua fondazione nel 241 a.C. al periodo imperiale. Essi rivelano nuovi dettagli delle necropoli e deH'anfiteatro, e pongono importanti questioni circa l'assegnazione dei terreni nelle vicinanze della città.

This paper reports on a set of intensive interdisciplinary field operations by a Belgian team of Ghent University in 2007 in the Marche region of central Adriatic Italy. Most of the interventions, comprising geophysical prospections, geomorphologic observations, aerial photography, surface artifact surveys, excavations, topographic surveys and pottery studies, aim at a better understanding of the developing Romanisation of this part of Picenum and the rapid urbanization of the area from the late Republic onwards. Quite spectacular are the results of combined remote sensing work on such towns as the coastal colony Potentia and the interior municipium Trea, with unusually detailed mapping of the majority of public and private town structures. In Potentia these intrasite and peri-urban surveys are now also being checked in the field with focused excavations on a town gate and an amphora workshop. Also important are original contributions towards a better comprehension of the townlandscape nexus, involving the discovery of roads, cemeteries, aqueducts and quarries discovered near the four Roman cities. Finally new observations concerning the pre-Roman situation of centrally organized settlement and its links with the establishment of more Roman style towns, add much to the debate about the relatively late urbanization of this Adriatic region.

This paper examines the landscape context of the Bartlow Hills, a group of large Romano-British barrows that were excavated in the 1840s but have been largely neglected since. GIS is employed to test whether it was possible to view the mounds from nearby roads, barrows, and villas. Existing research on provincial barrows, and especially their landscape context, and some recent relevant applications of GIS are reviewed. We argue that barrows are active and symbolically charged statements about power and identity. The most striking pattern to emerge from the GIS analysis is a focus on display to a local rather than a transient audience. InTRODuCTIOn 7 cf.