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Geophysical survey of ancient structures in Mahućina Bay on the Island of Rab (Lopar municipality), 2014 (HRZZ , Croatian Science Foundation, Project RED)
Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan
orcid.org/0000-0002-0613-729X
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Branko Mušič
; University of Ljubljana, Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bartul Šiljeg
orcid.org/0000-0003-2286-7775
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Konestra
orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-6515
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Geophysical survey conducted in Mahućina bay as part of the RED Project (Roman Economy in Dalmatia: production, distribution and demand in the light of pottery workshops, IP-11-2013-3979) of the Croatian Science Foundation focused on a more precise identification, definition and interpretation of potential structures of pottery furnaces identified during field surveys, aerial screening and analysis of historical sources. Magnetometric imagery yielded interesting results and confirmed the concentration of workshop finds in the south part of the bay, while drywalls were found on the north side of the bay, without any indication of ancient walls, unless they had been used for recent plot division. Seven zones were captured with stronger magnetization, that is, bipolar, which would point toward either production structures or an extremely high concentration of waste material.
These results should definitely be verified on the field, but, to a certain degree, they support the previous hypothesis established after field surveys, with addition of possible newly identified structures.
Keywords
geophysical survey; magnetometry; pottery furnace; island of Rab; Lopar
Hrčak ID:
148437
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Publication date:
18.11.2015.
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