Archaeological prospection of a specialized cooking‐pit site at Lunde in Vestfold, Norway

Gustavsen, Lars; Cannell, Rebecca J.S.; Nau, Erich; Tonning, Christer; Trinks, Immo; Kristiansen, Monica; Gabler, Manuel; Paasche, Knut; Gansum, Terje; Hinterleitner, Alois; Poscetti, Valeria; Neubauer, Wolfgang

doi:10.1002/arp.1589

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“…Such features comprise backfills that are charcoal-rich and often densely packed with fire-cracked rocks. This combination of components generates high-reflection responses in the GPR datasets, and the features tend to be easily identifiable, regardless of the subsoil [34]. This is reflected in our analyses which indicate a detection rate around 70% of the total number of features identified during excavation, close to and sometimes exceeding the detection rates of these features through trial trenching.…”

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The Effectiveness of Large-Scale, High-Resolution Ground-Penetrating Radar Surveys and Trial Trenching for Archaeological Site Evaluations—A Comparative Study from Two Sites in Norway

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The use of large-scale, high-resolution ground-penetrating radar surveys has increasingly become a part of Norwegian cultural heritage management as a complementary method to trial trenching surveys to detect and delineate archaeological sites. The aim of this article is to collect, interpret and compare large-scale, high-resolution ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey data with results from trial trenching and subsequent large-scale excavations, and to extract descriptive and spatial statistics on detection rates and precision for both evaluation methods. This, in turn, is used to assess the advantages and disadvantages of both conventional, intrusive methods and large-scale GPR surveys. Neither method proved to be flawless, and while the trial trenching had a better overall detection rate, organic and charcoal rich features were nearly just as easily detected by both methods. Similarly, the spatial representability was similar, even though the total detection rates were lower with the GPR. This can be used as an argument in advance of integrating full-coverage GPR results into a site evaluation scheme, preferably in combination with other methods. Overall, these analyses have highlighted drawbacks and possibilities in both methods that are important contributions in understanding how to use them and integrate them in future site evaluations.

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The Effectiveness of Large-Scale, High-Resolution Ground-Penetrating Radar Surveys and Trial Trenching for Archaeological Site Evaluations—A Comparative Study from Two Sites in Norway

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“…However, the overall multi-temporal and multi-scale results were only visually cross-compared with each other. Moreover, data integration is often restricted to similar nature of data (e.g., data obtained from satellite sensors such as pan-sharpening techniques [12][13][14][15], data enhancement of geophysical prospection data [16][17][18][19], etc. ).…”

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Beyond GIS Layering: Challenging the (Re)use and Fusion of Archaeological Prospection Data Based on Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN)

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Multisource remote sensing data acquisition has been increased in the last years due to technological improvements and decreased acquisition cost of remotely sensed data and products. This study attempts to fuse different types of prospection data acquired from dissimilar remote sensors and explores new ways of interpreting remote sensing data obtained from archaeological sites. Combination and fusion of complementary sensory data does not only increase the detection accuracy but it also increases the overall performance in respect to recall and precision. Moving beyond the discussion and concerns related to fusion and integration of multisource prospection data, this study argues their potential (re)use based on Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) fusion models. The archaeological site of Vésztő-Mágor Tell in the eastern part of Hungary was selected as a case study, since ground penetrating radar (GPR) and ground spectral signatures have been collected in the past. GPR 20 cm depth slices results were correlated with spectroradiometric datasets based on neural network models. The results showed that the BNN models provide a global correlation coefficient of up to 73%—between the GPR and the spectroradiometric data—for all depth slices. This could eventually lead to the potential re-use of archived geo-prospection datasets with optical earth observation datasets. A discussion regarding the potential limitations and challenges of this approach is also included in the paper.

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“…This is a characteristic shared with features known as cooking‐pits, which frequently occur on Iron Age settlement sites. These rather enigmatic features have been observed in GPR surveys elsewhere, and their distinctive response is thought to result from the presence of dense stone packings or increased water retention, possibly as a result of high organic content (Gustavsen et al, ). If, however, the metal detecting finds originate with the pits, as the correlation analysis tentatively suggests, this interpretation is questionable.…”

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Sem: A Viking Age metalworking site in the southeast of Norway?

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Evidence pertaining to Viking Age industry and trade is rarely encountered in the Norwegian archaeological record, although recent evidence suggests that sites of this character are more common than previously thought. Systematic metal detecting and large-scale geophysical surveys carried out in Øvre Eiker in the southeast of Norway between 2014 and 2016 revealed a multiphase and complex settlement area, consisting of large pits potentially associated with metalworking. The evidence so far points to a site with far-reaching contemporary connections, where objects were worked and exchanged. This short report aims to present the results from the work undertaken so far and to demonstrate how the complementary use of geophysical surveys and metal detection can add cultural-historical depth to the site itself and to a little understood aspect of Early Medieval history.

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Archaeological prospection of a specialized cooking‐pit site at Lunde in Vestfold, Norway

Cited by 11 publications

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The Effectiveness of Large-Scale, High-Resolution Ground-Penetrating Radar Surveys and Trial Trenching for Archaeological Site Evaluations—A Comparative Study from Two Sites in Norway

The Effectiveness of Large-Scale, High-Resolution Ground-Penetrating Radar Surveys and Trial Trenching for Archaeological Site Evaluations—A Comparative Study from Two Sites in Norway

Beyond GIS Layering: Challenging the (Re)use and Fusion of Archaeological Prospection Data Based on Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN)

Sem: A Viking Age metalworking site in the southeast of Norway?

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