Short Report

The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project

  1. Chris Gaffney1,*,
  2. Vince Gaffney2,
  3. Wolfgang Neubauer3,4,
  4. Eamonn Baldwin2,
  5. Henry Chapman2,
  6. Paul Garwood2,
  7. Helen Moulden2,
  8. Tom Sparrow1,
  9. Richard Bates6,
  10. Klaus Löcker3,5,
  11. Alois Hinterleitner3,5,
  12. Immo Trinks3,
  13. Erich Nau3,
  14. Thomas Zitz3,
  15. Sebastian Floery3,
  16. Geert Verhoeven3,
  17. Michael Doneus3,4,7

Article first published online: 29 APR 2012

DOI: 10.1002/arp.1422

Issue

Archaeological Prospection

Archaeological Prospection

Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 147–155, April/June 2012

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Gaffney, C., Gaffney, V., Neubauer, W., Baldwin, E., Chapman, H., Garwood, P., Moulden, H., Sparrow, T., Bates, R., Löcker, K., Hinterleitner, A., Trinks, I., Nau, E., Zitz, T., Floery, S., Verhoeven, G. and Doneus, M. (2012), The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. Archaeol. Prospect., 19: 147–155. doi: 10.1002/arp.1422

Author Information

  1. 1

    Archaeological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

  2. 2

    Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  3. 3

    Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, Vienna

  4. 4

    VIAS-Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, University of Vienna, Vienna

  5. 5

    ZAMG-Archeo Prospections®, Vienna

  6. 6

    University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK

  7. 7

    Department for Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

*C. Gaffney, Archaeological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK. E–mail: c.gaffney@yahoo.co.uk

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 3 JUN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 29 APR 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 2 FEB 2012
  4. Manuscript Revised: 1 FEB 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 5 JAN 2012

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Keywords:

  • landscape;
  • magnetometry;
  • GPR;
  • data fusion;
  • visualization;
  • Stonehenge

ABSTRACT

Over the centuries many archaeologists have investigated the site of Stonehenge and we now know a great deal about the phasing and nature of the site. However, the area around the henge, while containing many symbolic and ritual elements, is curiously ‘blank’. The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project aims to place the site and its development through time within a landscape context using fast and accurate ground-based geophysical techniques. The project has developed a rapid strategy to map, visualize and interpret landscape-scale data and is applying the strategy to the area known as the Stonehenge ‘envelope’. The data are interpreted within a data rich three-dimensional data cube that has provided new insights regarding the apparent blank areas surrounding Stonehenge. It is an aim of the project to discover more about Stonehenge by looking out from the site rather than looking at it. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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