Rapid and sensitive magnetometer surveys of large areas using SQUIDs - The measurement system and its application to the Niederzimmern neolithic double-ring ditch exploration

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-131

  Schultze, Volkmar ^a   Linzen, Sven ^a   Schüler, Tim ^b   Chwala, Andreas ^a   Stolz, Ronny ^a   Schulz, Marco ^a   Meyer, Hans Georg ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Thüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic prospection; Gradiometer; Magnetometry; Neolithic ring ditch; SQUID

Indexed keywords

EID: 48949117359     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.328     Document Type: Article

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