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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION

Making historical structures visible The magnetometers of the FEREX product family are
Our ancestors left their mark. Today’s soil strata still distinguished by their exquisite sensitivity and resolu-

bear the traces of former settlements, traffic routes tion. They enable the reliable measurement of founda-
and civic life. A geomagnetic survey can bring these al- tions, trench structures or even prehistoric post-holes.
terations in soil structure to light. For just this purpose, A data logger with high sampling rate can record a
FOERSTER supplies ultra-sensitive fluxgate magne- network of measuring points with high spatial reso-

tometers and mapping software. lution. Exact positioning via GPS or odometer al-
lows you to display even the smallest anomalies with
high resolution. And standardized interfaces make it
simple to integrate supplementary sensors into the
FEREX system.

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Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age Roman Early
period Empire Middle Ages

5500 – 2200 B.C. 2200 – 800 B.C. 800 – 15 B.C. 10 B.C. – 455 A.D. 459 – 1050 A.D.

Fireplaces Hilltop settlements Royal burial mounds Forts Castles

Pits Burial mounds Settlement Foundations and fortifications

Post-holes fortifications Traffic routes Moats