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Unbiasing the archaeological record

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Fig. 1 – Distribution of ‘stray finds’ from the Roman period (source: Shropshire Sites & Monuments Records) against a background of the presumed contemporary infrastructure – roads and rivers.

Fig. 1 – Distribution of ‘stray finds’ from the Roman period (source: Shropshire...

Tav. VII - a: Locations of all pre-Conquest archaeological site records in the study area (source: Shropshire Sites & Monuments Records). b: Comparison of land use histograms for land use (top left), Shropshire SMR records (top right), and enclosure and field system sites (bottom left) shows increased ‘preference’ for arable areas (column 5).

Tav. VII - a: Locations of all pre-Conquest archaeological site records in the s...

Tav. VIII - a: Field work transect of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project (white), with areas surveyed during the 1994-5 field walking season, totalling 387 hectares. The built-up areas of Shrewsbury and Telford are masked out. b: Processing of field walking results, detail. Roman roads and stray finds in yellow. Early Roman finds are mapped as points (top left), as raster cells (top right), and as a continuous interpolated surface (bottom left).

Tav. VIII - a: Field work transect of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project (white), w...

van Leusen M. 1996, Unbiasing the archaeological record, Archeologia e Calcolatori 7