Research data supporting “Falerii Novi: the Ground-Penetrating Radar survey of the Roman town”

This data set contains ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data acquired at the Roman city Falerii Novi (Lazio, Italy) by Lieven Verdonck, between April 2015 and August 2017, within the AHRC project ‘Beneath the Surface of Roman Republican Cities’. The area surveyed was approximately 27 ha. Data were collected with a pulse GPR and an RTK-GNSS instrument or robotic total station. The traverse separation varied between 0.06 m and 0.12 m, the reading interval was approximately 0.05 m. The GPR data in this data set consist of georeferenced time-slices (GeoTIFFs), as well as shapefiles containing the delineation of the GPR anomalies by Alessandro Launaro, which were the basis for the archaeological interpretation. Both the GeoTIFFs and the shapefiles can directly be added to a geographical information system. Furthermore, metadata files in .csv format include all details on GPR data acquisition and processing, and on the creation of the shapefiles with the delineation. Finally, the data set includes an MP4 file with the time-slices as an animation. For the raw and processed GPR profiles in SEG-Y format, please refer to the open-access archive at the Archaeology Data Service (see the link below, under ‘Related resources’). Please also see the readme file for more information on the file structure.