Fieldwalking, Earthwork Surveying & Metal-Detecting

The following is only a brief summary, this page will be updated in the near future with further information, plots, plans etc.

Fieldwalking
During the winter months we undertake fieldwalking within the survey area, to date we have located mnay new Prehistoric, Roman and Saxon sites. Fieldwalking is undertaken using twenty metre squares and aligned using the Ordnance Survey National Grid. Each twenty metre square is twenty-five percent sampled. The results are then recorded into a bespoke database written for the project which then allows us to extract the data into MapInfo for plotting.

Earthwork Surveying
To date no earthwork surveys have been conducted, however, with numerous well preserved DMV's in the survey area, this is something that will start during the summer 2006.

Metal-Detecting
We believe in the pro-active use of metal-detectors, every find, including all Lead on specific sites are recorded with a handheld GPS. These finds are then recorded onto a database to allow us to extract the information into MapInfo for plotting.

One of our main aims with all non-intrusive archaeological survey is to overlay all survey types, i.e. geophysical, fieldwalking, metal-detecting for full analysis and comparison.