







The Olynthos Project Geophysical Survey 2014-2019: Season 2016
Survey: Geophysical survey
The South Hill was the focus of the April season, during which geophysical survey (employing four different techniques) and surface collection were both carried out according to the same 30-m grid. Geophysical survey focused on the southern area of the hill, less extensively explored by Robinson. Tentative initial interpretation of the geophysics results suggest that this part of the hill was laid out in a somewhat regular fashion as a kind of grid, with parallel sets of curving east–west streets terminating at Robinson’s two north– south avenues and continuing beyond on an off-set alignment. In a few locations overlapping walls or differing alignments imply at least two different phases of occupation, but determining their chronology requires further investigation through excavation. In July a three-dimensional optical mapping project was completed, which was used to construct a preliminary digital elevation model (DEM), and is currently being used to prepare a new site plan, which will now form the basis for all of the project’s GIS models and will improve understanding of how new data relate to the structures investigated by Robinson.
Active from /04/2016 to /08/2016.