EDIT: Just to clarify, this is in Poland, not the UK. I live nearby and heard many stories from my grandfather that the front line ran roughly through this area and there was intense partisan fighting.
I’ve been playing around with training an AI model to help spot earthworks and features in regional LiDAR data around my local area.
While going through the tiles to train the AI. I spotted these faint linear anomalies and enclosure features.
They lie south of a known stretch of Roman road and I've checked old OS maps to see if a building was once there.
I know it's almost certainly not some grand Roman villa, but it caught my eye and now I'm curious as to what it could realistically represent.
Found your group for metal detecting and wanted to see if anyone could help me. Started playing around with Lidar and came across pic 1. Pic 2 is current satellite. Was something in that field at some point? I’ve looked at old aerials and there has never been anything on the photos. Thanks for the help!
I will probably use this for all of my searching now. Ive gone back over known finds and locations and this layer seems to be the best all around for spotting and quickly fine tuning for detail. Im now certain on a few suspected sites so will be sending off to the HER. And ive easily spotted new sites too.
The pictures are of a couple of (im guessing) Iron Age enclosures i spotted with the new layer when just testing it out. I doubt i would have noticed them with a normal LiDAR DTM hill shade.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=6.8&lat=53.20099&lon=-2.07275&layers=6&b=vat&o=0
"We have added a new Combined Visualisation for Archaeological Topography (CVAT) LiDAR layer covering England and Wales. CVAT is particularly useful for identifying subtle earthworks and other features of different sizes, shapes and orientations. It combines four different LiDAR visualisation techniques and works well across many landscape types, helping to pick out more subtle features in relatively level areas, while also providing useful detail across steeper ground. A key new feature is a set of contrast controls which enable the layer display to be 'tuned' to best suit a particular area of study. The new layer provides new ways of exploring archaeological features in England and Wales, and can be viewed alongside historic maps, modern satellite imagery and other LiDAR visualisations."
Only for England and Wales at the moment. Hopefully more of the UK will follow.