"Integrated Scientific Methods and Archaeological Research at Navan Fort, County Armagh" (Larson, senior author, with E. Ambos). Emania, Vol. 15, 11-15, 1997.

"Remote Sensing Surveys of the Navan Fort (with E. Ambos, senior author, Kenneth Kvamme, Malachy Conway, and Shawn Cibbarelli). Emania, Vol. 15, 16-32, 1997.

Here I group publications 7 and 8 together for convenience. Emania is the primary journal of archaeological research for Northern Ireland and is well respected throughout the UK. This issue featured research that we have been conducting over the last several years

Abstract Pilot remote sensing surveys were recently conducted of Navan Fort in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, by an interdisciplinary team of geophysicists and archaeologists. Regional aerial photograph reconnaissance was coupled with detailed ground penetrating radar (GPR), and cesium vapor and proton precession magnetometer surveys. The GPR and magnetometer work conducted during the summers of 1994-1995 confirmed the existence of a double ring between the Sites 'B' and 'A' excavated by D. Waterman and others at Navan Fort. At least one possible entrance to the new double ring, as well as linkages between the ring and Sites 'B' and 'A' are also suggested by the geophysical data. The two geophysical methods provided complementary results, in that the magnetometer surveys identified the spatial distribution of superimposed subsurface features, and the GPR method provided information as to the stratigraphy of these features.

The success of our pilot experiment shows that a strategy combining regional aerial photograph surveys with detailed high resolution geophysical site studies promises to provide important inter- and intra-site variability data. This information can in turn be used to rigorously test hypotheses of cultural evolution for this region of Northern Ireland.