International Conference on GPR in Archaeology (Nara, February 2001)
The Study and Characterisation of Traiano's Villa (Altopiani di Arcinazzo - Roma) using High-Resolution Integrated Geophysical Surveys
Salvatore Piro
Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage (ITABC - CNR), P.O. Box 10 - 00016 Monterotondo Sc. Roma, ItalyE-Mail: Salvatore.Piro@mlib.cnr.it
Dean Goodman
Geophysical Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Miami Japan division, Otsubu 39-1, JapanYasushi Nishimura
NARA National Cultural Properties Research Institute, 9-1, 2-chome, Nijyocho, Nara-shi, 630-8577 Japan
The site
characterised by the presence of the big complex of Traiano's Villa (M.
Ulpius Traianus Emperor, 98-117 a. C.) is object of a new Joint Project
of the Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio (Cultural and Environmental
Heritage Ministery, Italy), with the collaboration of ITABC Institute
(CNR, Italy) and NARA Institute (Japan), with the aim to extend
the knowledge, to recover and to improve the historical monument.
In the present work a combination of Fluxgate Differential Magnetic (FDM), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) methods has been used with the aim of detecting the structures of Emperor Traiano's Villa in the archaeological site of Altopiani di Arcinazzo (Roma, Italy).
With all geophysical techniques a high-resolution data acquisition method has been adopted, through the surveys made during 1999-2000, with the aim to reconstructe the global vision of the area investigated.
Some signal processing and representation techniques have been used for data elaboration, representation and interpretation.
The results obtained on shallowly buried structures indicate that the plan of the building can be clearly identified and characterised from the integration of the adopted methods.
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