Site Event/Activity record ENT4532 - Geophysical Survey (magnetometer) of Land at Pleasley Hill, Mansfield

Location

Location Land at Pleasley Hill
Grid reference Centred SK 51142 63100 (849m by 1340m)
Map sheet SK56SW
District Mansfield
Civil Parish Mansfield, Mansfield

Technique(s)

Organisation

Headland Archaeology

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

The survey was undertaken using four Bartington Grad601 sensors mounted at 1m intervals onto a rigid carrying frame. The system was programmed to take readings at a frequency of 10Hz (allowing for a 10-15cm sample interval) on roaming traverses (swaths) 4m apart. MLGrad601 and MultiGrad601 (Geomar Software Inc) software was used to collect and export the data. There were three important results: 1.) a field system and enclosure which predates the current system; 2.) a 40m x 40m circular enclosure (unsure whether it relates to earlier or later field system; it respects the later system, however; 3.) Circular anomaly, 10-12m in diameter, which may be the ploughed down remains of a round barrow. Conclusion: Evidence of possible settlement activity, and the results corroborate the conclusions of a DBA done by Trent and Peak (which found Bronze Age artifact scatters throughout the fields).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Unpublished document: A. Webb. 2018. Land at Pleasley Hill, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire: Geophysical Survey.

Related Monuments/Buildings (4)

  • Field system and enclosure which predates current system, land at Pleasley Hill, Mansfield (Element)
  • Likely ring ditch, land at Pleasley Hill (Element)
  • Ridge and furrow (Element)
  • Square enclosure, land at Pleasley Hill, Mansfield (Element)

Record last edited

Nov 8 2019 2:58PM

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