I write this intended as a quick piece on the changing earth resistance anomaly which is being detected in Cherry Copse, Cirencester.  This, our most obvious ditch to detect (silty loamy ditch fill  cut into weathered free draining limestone bedrock) has shown some interesting variations over the past year.  To mark our full year of survey over this feature, I have included a graph to show how the ditch appeared in my Earth Resistance dataset in June 2011, and how it appeared last month, June 2012.
These measurements are taken during my …

This post will be revised as corrections are sent through by colleagues to correct my ignorance on certain scientific issues and what happened in practice.
We proposed a thermal imaging experiment at the RAC in Cirencester. This was originally instigated after viewing the diurnal temperature variations from the embedded probes and wondering what the impact of the vegetation canopy would be on any sensor. This was given life with follow up conversations with John and Rosie Wells (West Lothian Archaeology).
Between the 18th and 22nd June 2012 two diurnal measurement experiments were …

The abstract that Ant Beck, David Stott and Doreen Boyd submitted to the ’3rd Workshop on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management’ (EARSel 2012 Conference in Ghent) has been accepted.
The abstract was entitled ‘Using multi-temporal benchmarking to determine optimal sensor deployment’. You can see a copy of the abstract here.
Well done all.

Last night I was browsing Reddit and came across the following post. This provided a very simple and clear infographic concerning the relationship between evidence, theory and knowledge. This is a very important concept for DART. The original poster placed their version in Wikicommons under a CC-BY-SA licence here. I recreated the image from scratch to get over some formatting issues for enhance re-use and re-hosted in the same fashion here and here.

 
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This file is available on …

On the 16th May 2012 a ‘virtual’ meeting was held. The virtual meetings are designed to provide the DART investigating team with updates of general progress. This is crucial as the investigating team is distributed between a number of different universities. Prior to the meeting the student provide progress reports so we have a document such elements as progress, problems, outputs and achievements.
 
The bulk of the discussion at this meeting discussed general progress and problems with the weather station data. Future meetings will include specific discussions on modelling
 
The monthly student …