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Sigwells, Somerset, England: regional application and interpretation of geophysical survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Tabor  and
Paul Johnson
Richard Tabor
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, England [email protected]
Paul Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, The Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
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Abstract

Work by the South Cadbury Environs Project shows that analysing the alignment and morphology of large-scale geophysical data plots can greatly enhance diachronic and synchronic interpretation of a landscape. A pilot study demonstrates that discontinuity of boundary systems features as strongly as continuity in succeeding landscapes.

Keywords

Geophysicsregional surveyboundarieslandscape systemsCadbury CastleSigwells
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 284 , June 2000 , pp. 319 - 325
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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