25th January 2006, 05:31 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Sith
I have experienced this both ways in the past; sites with features not detected by geophysics and geophysical anomalies not identified during excavation. Is it possible that the ridge and furrow responses were strong enough to swamp the 'real' archaeological ones?
Ah yes I forgot false positives for some reason It's fairly common to see R&F on the surveys here, even when there are no archaeological features asscoiated with it. Presumably it's a sort of ghost signal of long ploughed out R&F. I'm not sure how much it swamps out underlying features but it does seem to.
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