Application of Remote Sensing in Rescue Archaeology: The Results of the Test Geomagnetic Survey on the Site of Marjansko Brdo in 2023

Abstract

During the 2022-2023. rescue excavation campaign on the route of the future Požarevac-Veliko Gradište-Golubac motorway, conducted by the Institute of Archaeology from Belgrade, standard practice included geophysical survey preceding excavations. This strategy proved to be time and cost efficient, improving decision making in opening trenches. Shortly before the start of the three-month-long large-scale excavations at the site of Marjansko brdo, the team from Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, acquired a Bartington Grad601 fluxgate magnetic gradiometer and immediately began testing the device. Several testing grids were surveyed in the zones that were not previously prospected or excavated. The following article presents the data recorded in the survey compared with the results of the subsequent excavations in an attempt to better understand basic interpretative principles of magnetogram.