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Laser scanner gave me a 3D map of a ruin that didn't match the site photos
I ran a LiDAR scan over a Roman farmstead in Somerset last month and the outline showed a second building buried under a hedge row that I never would have dug for. Has anyone else found structures that way that just weren't visible on the surface?
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victor_palmer13d ago
Read somewhere that a few English Heritage crews have been using ground penetrating radar on known sites and finding whole extra wings people walked past for decades. Makes sense though, old farmers often reused foundations for later field boundaries, so that hedge row was probably hiding a wall that never got robbed out. Trick is the LiDAR only shows the shape if the crop or soil marks line up right, and a lot of folks just dig test pits where they think things should be, not where the software says look. Got a mate who found a full roundhouse this way in Wales, just a bump in a sheep pasture nobody cared about. If the scan lines up with any old estate maps or tithe records, that'll tell you if it's a second farm building or maybe a barn added later. Worth checking the local finds liaison officer too, they sometimes have notes on odd bits found near that hedge.
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