Pupils become amateur archaeologists on Haresfield Beacon

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Archaeological Excavations, Survey and Projects
November 30, 2009 - 8:01pm

Pupils from Haresfield Primary School recently joined up with amateur archaeologists to research undetected archaeological features in the Stroud countryside. A class of Year 5 children used a resitivity meter to measure the resistance of the ground at Haresfield Beacon. When uploaded onto a computer this data will help to show the formation of the ground, which may show up ancient earthworks, burial mounds and habitation sites, roadways or even civil war emplacements.Restivity Surveying is one of a number of activities carried out by volunteers at Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group, which has just been awarded a grant under the Lottery Awards for All scheme. This has enabled the group to go ahead with a major new project to discover and research undetected archaeological features. [...]


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