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Archaeology Data Service
Geophysical Data in Archaeology:
A Guide to Good Practice

by Armin Schmidt

with contributions from Tony Austin, Andrew David, Kate Fernie, William Kilbride, Paul Linford, Julian Richards and Damian Robinson

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Acknowledgements

Section 1: Introduction

1.1 Aims and objectives
1.2 Digital preservation of geophysical data
1.3 How best to use this Guide
1.4 Other sources of information

Section 2: Archaeological Geophysics

2.1 Introduction
2.2 History of archaeological geophysics
2.3 Reasons for a survey project
2.4 Choice of survey method and procedure

Section 3: Documenting Data from a Geophysical Survey Project

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Project documentation
3.3 Documenting the geophysics coordinate system
3.4 Documenting the geophysical survey
3.5 Data storage
3.6 Data treatment
3.7 Interpretation
3.8 Images
3.9 Report
3.10 Description of archive
3.11 Case study: the Cottam project
3.12 Case study: the Leptiminus geophysical survey

Section 4: Digital Archiving of Archaeological Geophysical Data

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Planning for the creation of digital data
4.3 Storing digital data sets
4.4 Digital archiving strategies

Section 5: Resource Discovery

5.1 Access and re-use
5.2 Metadata as an aid to resource discovery

Section 6: Depositing Archaeological Geophysical Data in a Digital Archive

6.1 Guidelines for depositing digital archives
6.2 Depositing geophysical data with the Archaeology Data Service

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Appendix 1: Geospatial References

A.1.1 Locating geophysical results within the wider landscape
A.1.2 Reference frames
A.1.3 Coregistration
A.1.4 Georeferencing
A.1.5 Absolute coordinates using GPS
A.1.6 Precision, resolution and accuracy

Appendix 2: Documentation Overview

A.2.1 Introduction
A.2.2 Core metadata for the ADS
A.2.3 Additional metadata for the English Heritage Geophysical Survey Database
A.2.4 A check-list for documenting geophysical surveys

Appendix 3: Standards

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