ROME TRANSFORMED: INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF THE EASTERN CAELIAN (ROME)

Abstract

The ongoing off-site analysis of data captured in the field prior to early March 2020 and a range of equally essential work on archival sources and database development kept team members fully occupied. The British School at Rome team, led by Stephen Kay, used two Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) antennas, a 400 MHz and 200 MHz;the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche team, led by Salvatore Piro, deployed GPR with a 70 MHz monostatic antenna and a GSSI 300/800 MHz dual-frequency digital antenna;and Geostudi Astier, led by Gianfranco Morelli, operated GPR with the IDS Stream multi-channel system, surveying between them a wide-ranging set of targets. Coordination of this work required not only the generous help of many key Roman stakeholders, more fully acknowledged below, but also a good understanding of the history of investigation at each location, something being further developed through archival research and data sharing with SITAR (https://www.archeositarproject.it/), the latter project led by Mirella Serlorenzi, and the Archivio Centrale dello Stato where, thanks to Mirco Modolo, we got the opportunity to work on the important documents that form part of Edoardo and Guglielmo Gatti's archive. [...]all three teams converged to take a combined approach to GPR and ERT.