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An Archaeomagnetic Study of a Roman Bath in Southern France
Author(s) -
Hammond M. L.,
Lanos PH.,
Hill M. J.,
Colleoni F.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/arcm.12240
Subject(s) - archaeomagnetic dating , secular variation , geology , archaeology , interpretation (philosophy) , sedimentary rock , period (music) , variation (astronomy) , paleontology , physical geography , history , geography , art , earth's magnetic field , geophysics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , magnetic field , astrophysics , aesthetics
Absolute Thellier–Thellier archaeointensity determinations were conducted on 137 tiles and sedimentary blocks from five different structures from the ‘Site de la Molère’, southern France, to constrain the archaeological interpretation of a relative age difference between structures and add new data to the French secular variation database. We present 89 new archaeointensity and 20 new directional results, with averages of 57 (±8) μT in the second century ad and 68 (±7) μT in the third century ad . The overall data trend is consistent with the limited available data, indicating rapidly increasing field intensity from the second to the third century ad .