A ground-penetrating radar survey for archaeological investigations in an urban area (Lecce, Italy)

Basile, Vito; Carrozzo, M. T.; Negri, Sergio; Nuzzo, Luigi; Quarta, T.; Villani, Ada V.

doi:10.1016/s0926-9851(99)00070-1

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“…GPR is a non-destructive and non-invasive method and is often considered ideal because of its capability to produce high-resolution images in real time 27 . GPR works on the basis of the emission of electromagnetic waves and the reception of their reflections generated depending upon different material properties.…”

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Unravelling the Hidden Truth from Vigukot in the Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India by Surface and Sub-Surface Mapping

Malik¹,

Gadhavi²,

Satuluri³

et al. 2017

Current Science

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(2) During the first level of occupancy, EA1 was probably a residential complex (having enclosed walls), and EA2 might be the trading complex (with partially enclosed walls lying opposite to G1). Both the areas were affected during the disaster, and the second level of occupancy EA1 was rebuilt and occupied, whereas EA2 was used without renovation. Moreover, the 1819 earthquake probably destroyed both the areas completely and led to their abandonment.

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Unravelling the Hidden Truth from Vigukot in the Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India by Surface and Sub-Surface Mapping

Malik¹,

Gadhavi²,

Satuluri³

et al. 2017

Current Science

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“…The advantages of threedimensional GPR surveying are documented with regard to mapping geological features (Grasmueck, 1996;Sigurdsson and Overgaard, 1998), of detecting antipersonnel mines (Zanzi and Valle, 1999) and archaeological investigations, where the greater horizontal and vertical resolution is required (Malagodi et al, 1996;Conyers and Goodman, 1997;Leckebush, 2000;Tomizawa et al, 2000). High-resolution acquisition techniques, using a submetre profile spacing interval have been applied successfully in locating subsurface archaeological structures (Goodman et al, 1995;Malagodi et al, 1996;Pipan et al, 1996Pipan et al, , 1999Pipan et al, , 2001Basile et al, 2000), and also to image large-scale archaeological features (Archaeological Prospection, 1999Edwards et al, 2000;Kamei et al, 2000;Nishimura and Goodman, 2000;Piro et al, 2001).…”

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The study and characterization of Emperor Traiano's Villa (Altopiani di Arcinazzo, Roma) using high‐resolution integrated geophysical surveys

Piro

Goodman²,

Nishimura

2003

Archaeological Prospection

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In this work, the results of high-resolution integrated geophysical surveys of the archaeological site of Traiano's Villa (Altopiani di Arcinazzo, Roma, Italy) are presented. The Villa of Roman Emperor Marco Ulpio Traino (AD 98-117) was built in Arcinazzo (Italy), approximately 55 km northeast of Rome. Today, the only remains left standing at the site are the public building entrances comprising a small portion of the entire site. Over 5 ha, adjacent to the entrance remains, had not been surveyed. As part of an ongoing study to rescue this national archaeological treasure, highresolution ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, using a submetre profile spacing, integrated with a gradiometric survey, were conducted. Amplitude GPR time-slice analysis indicates that many structural foundations and walls of the villa are still well preserved below the surface. Timeslices below 1.5 m in one area indicate two large mushroom shaped structures enclosed within a large building over 100 m in length. These structures are believed to be dipping pools within a larger structure believed to be the bathhouse to the villa. At the location west of the bathhouse a large oval shaped anomaly 45 m along its major axis was located. This subsurface structure is believed to be an oval garden pond or a swimming pool. Several other remnants of rectangular buildings coincident with the oval structure but much deeper were also imaged. Other structures include a long rectangular corridor that contains many square shaped rooms, which has been interpreted as a criptoporticus. The magnetic map, related to part of the area investigated, shows many dipole anomalies. These anomalies represent linear and semicircular structures of the villa. The magnetic results provide complementary information to the GPR survey that lines out walls and floors.

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“…Among them groundpenetrating radar (GPR) plays a special role because in favourable conditions, i.e. resistive nonmagnetic environments, it can provide subsurface information with a resolution by far greater than that obtained by other geophysical methods (Basile et al, 2000;Carrozzo et al, 2003;Conyers, 2004;Conyers and Goodman, 2007).…”

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GPR, ERT and magnetic investigations inside the Martyrium of St Philip, Hierapolis, Turkey

Nuzzo

Leucci

Negri

2009

Archaeological Prospection

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Hierapolis, Denizli, Turkey, was one of the most important Hellenistic-Roman cities in Asia Minor.Located about 250 km east of Izmir, the area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its magnificent archaeologicalremainsandthewhitetravertine poolformationscreated byitspeculiargeothermal setting. The Italian Archaeological Mission in more than 50 years of activity in Hierapolis has brought to light and restored important vestiges of the ancient city, helping to understand the urban layout in the various epochs of its development. In 2001^2003 geophysical surveys were performed by the University of Lecce in several areas inside the archaeological site of Hierapolis to support the archaeological excavations.This paper reports the results of the integrated geophysical surveys performed in 2003 inside the Martyrium of Saint Philip, a mausoleum built on the place where it is believed that the Apostle was martyred. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR), electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and magnetic gradient investigations were carried out in the central octagonal room, whereas the accessible lateral rooms were surveyed with GPR and occasionally ERT.The acquisition was performed along a series of closely spaced lines and the processed data were visualized as two-dimensional vertical sections (GPR), map view (magnetic gradiometry), depth slices or threedimensional volumes (GPR and ERT) to allow an integrated interpretation of the geophysical results. The analysis of the geophysical datasets revealed a series of anomaliesin both the central andlateral rooms that could be ascribed to the building foundations and to other possible archaeological structures, probablyrelated to earlier stagesofthe sacredbuildingandto tombs, aswellasotheranomalies (voids, fractures) of presumable natural origin.

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A ground-penetrating radar survey for archaeological investigations in an urban area (Lecce, Italy)

Cited by 87 publications

References 5 publications

Unravelling the Hidden Truth from Vigukot in the Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India by Surface and Sub-Surface Mapping

Unravelling the Hidden Truth from Vigukot in the Great Rann of Kachchh, Western India by Surface and Sub-Surface Mapping

The study and characterization of Emperor Traiano's Villa (Altopiani di Arcinazzo, Roma) using high‐resolution integrated geophysical surveys

GPR, ERT and magnetic investigations inside the Martyrium of St Philip, Hierapolis, Turkey

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