The Battle of the Seelow Heights, April 1945: conflict archaeology in the forests of Eastern Brandenburg, Germany

Weber, Martin; Passmore, David G.; Capps-Tunwell, David; Davie, H. G. W.

doi:10.1080/15740773.2023.2183784

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“…The increasing availability of open-access national LiDAR surveys has enabled researchers to detect subtle surface remains that are difficult to discern in the field and across broad landscapes. This is particularly true in forested areas, which are often unresponsive to other archaeological detection methods yet may host some of the most extensive and well-preserved military landscapes of the twentieth century (Passmore et al 2014;Passmore & Capps-Tunwell 2020;Weber et al 2022). Thanks to the application of LiDAR across wide areas and typically on a nonselective basis, the method has been used to detect and investigate many conflict landscapes (Hesse 2014;Van der Schriek & Beex 2017).…”

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LiDAR and conflict archaeology: the Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945)

Stichelbaut,

Coucke,

Passmore

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Although conflict archaeology is now well established, the archaeological remains of many specific military confrontations are still to be explored. This article reports the results of fieldwork to document the site of the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944–25 January 1945). The authors use drone-mounted 1m-resolution LiDAR and very high-resolution simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) methods to reveal more than 940 features within the forested Ardennes landscape, many of which were subsequently visited and confirmed. As well as highlighting the potential of the LiDAR-SLAM method, deployed here (both in this geographic region and in conflict archaeology) for the first time, the survey results emphasise the need for a debate on managing the heritage of a key modern conflict landscape in Europe.

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