The Late Bronze Age settlement site of Březnice: Magnetometer survey data

0539126 - ARÚ 2022 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Kuna, Martin - Křivánek, Roman - Chvojka, O. - Šálková, T.
The Late Bronze Age settlement site of Březnice: Magnetometer survey data.
Data in Brief. Roč. 35, April (2021), č. článku 106793. ISSN 2352-3409
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA18-10747S
Research Infrastructure: AIS CR II - 90134
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : magnetometry * source data * Bronze Age settlement site * intra-site patterning * house burning * prehistoric homestead clusters
OECD category: Archaeology
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921000779?via%3Dihub

The archaeological site of Březnice (Czechia) represents one of the large settlements of the Late Bronze Age (Ha A2/B1, 14C: 1124–976 BC) in Bohemia. The site became known mainly for a high number of so-called ‘trenches’, oblong pit features (breadth around 1 m, length 4–7 m), remarkable not only for their specific shape but also for their contents (unusual amounts of pottery, daub, loom weights and other finds, often with traces of a strong fire). In 2018–20, a research project focusing on the study of the site was realized. Magnetometer survey became an integral part of the project since it represented a way to obtain an overall image of the site. A 5-channel fluxgate gradiometer from Sensys (Germany) was used, the vertical gradient of the Z component of the Earth magnetic field was measured. In total, the survey covered an area of over 17 hectares and included over 1.8 million measurements. Profiles were orientated from east to west and data were taken bidirectionally (alternate lines in opposite directions), in a 0.5 × 0.2 m grid. The site is extraordinary due to the fact that all archaeological features discovered so far belong to a single archaeological period (Late Bronze Age). This makes the acquired data set exceptional. It can be further used by archaeologists and geophysicists, both to create alternative models of the dynamics of prehistoric settlements and to better understand the nature and interpretive possibilities of the magnetometer data in archaeology as such.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0316880


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