ENN104152 - Mill Wood, 2005 (Geophysical survey)

Geophysical techniques have been successful in locating both known and unknown elements of buried archaeology in four areas of woodland surveyed in this pilot study. The work involved scanning the whole of each area using magnetometers and then undertaking detailed survey with the same instrument as well as collecting closely spaced magnetic susceptibility measurements. One area of the known, but ‘lost’, industrial activity was mapped in Area I, while a new site was found in Area A. The latter may indicate the position of a charcoal-burning area. Elsewhere the scanned anomalies were either associated with isolated archaeological type responses or were ferrous in nature; ferrous, in this context usually indicates relatively modern intervention.