







The Olynthos Project Geophysical Survey 2014-2019: Season 2017
Survey: Geophysical survey
On the North Hill, sloping down to the east towards the Lower City, geophysical survey reinforced the results obtained by surface collections, suggesting dense occupation. On the South Hill further electrical resistance survey suggested that the urban grid identified in 2016 continued across almost the whole of the surveyable part of the hill with the exception of its extreme south. Further survey of a limited portion of the southern part of the hill with ground penetrating radar suggests that in that area, at least, anomalies apparently representing road surfaces can be detected in the earliest cultural levels. Magnetometry survey west of the northern part of the North Hill located a group of small, strong anomalies. These appear to represent graves, possibly a continuation of Robinson’s ‘Riverside Cemetery’, suggesting that this area lies beyond the boundary of the ancient city. Magnetic and electromagnetic survey outside the fenced archaeological site, to the east of the South Hill, suggested that settlement here was much less dense than on the two hills, and does not appear to follow the kind of grid envisaged by Robinson.
Active in 2017.