Uffington, Oxfordshire. Report on Fluxgate Magnetometer Survey, September 2002
Author(s): Andy Payne
Fluxgate magnetometer survey was carried out over a complex cluster of small enclosures, linear ditched features and possible dwellings of probable Iron Age date initially discovered by aerial photography at the foot of the Lambourn Downs near the village of Uffington, Oxfordshire. The magnetometer survey responded well to the features that had previously given rise to the crop-marks mapped from the air. The resulting geophysical data significantly enhances earlier understanding of the layout and character of the settlement including evidence for a previously unrecognised larger enclosure formed of straight ditch alignments bounding the complex of smaller compounds and hut-circles. Little further archaeological activity was detected beyond this enclosure boundary. The magnetometer survey has also added evidence of numerous pits, many of which are grouped in dense clusters adjacent to some of the possible dwellings. Part of the course of a former canal was also detected partly due to the presence of ferrous material in the now in-filled cutting.
- Report Number:
- 69/2004
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 4
- Keywords:
- Fluxgate Geophysical Survey Magnetometer
